Re: [PATCH 13/19] VFS: lock dentry for ->revalidate to avoid races with rename etc

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Feb 07, 2025 at 08:28:39PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 06, 2025 at 04:42:50PM +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> 
> > +	if (dentry->d_flags & LOOKUP_RCU) {
> 
> Really?

That aside, you are *NOT* passing the parent's name here - if you
look at the callers, all of them have 'name' and 'last' arguments
identicaly.  What is going on here?