Re: [RFC PATCH v2] fs: touch up symlink clean up in lookup

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Dec 17, 2025 at 12:23:45PM +0100, Mateusz Guzik wrote:
> Provide links_cleanup_rcu() and links_cleanup_ref() for rcu- and ref-
> walks respectively.
> 
> The somewhat misleading drop_links() gets renamed to links_issue_delayed_calls(),
> which spells out what it is actually doing.

IMO the replacement name is worse; it doesn't say anything about
the purpose of those "issued delayed calls", for starters.

> There are no changes in behavior, this however should be less
> error-prone going forward.

I disagree, but at the moment (6:30am here, and I'd been up since 11am yesterday ;-/)
I don't trust my ability to produce coherent detailed reply.  I'll reply in detail
once I get some sleep...