Re: [PATCH] fat: avoid parent link count underflow in rmdir

[Christian Brauner]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 10:39:59AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 03:16:54 +0900 OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 13 Jan 2026 01:45:18 +0800 Zhiyu Zhang <zhiyuzhang999@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi OGAWA,
> > >> 
> > >> Sorry, I thought the further merge request would be done by the maintainers.
> > >> 
> > >> What should I do then?
> > >
> > > That's OK - I have now taken a copy of the patch mainly to keep track
> > > of it.  It won't get lost.
> > >
> > > I thought Christian was handling fat patches now, but perhaps that's a
> > > miscommunication?
> > 
> > Hm, I was thinking Andrew is still handling the fat specific patch, and
> > Christian is only handling patches when vfs related.
> > 
> > Let me know if I need to do something.
> 
> OK, thanks, seems I misremembered.

I prefer to take anything that touches fs/ - apart from reasonable
exceptions - to go through vfs tree. So I would prefer to take this
patch.