[PATCH 0/3] fs/namei.c: comment and coding style fixups
From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Jul 31 2026 - 04:37:22 EST
Neil,
Three comment and coding style fixups for your lookup_open() rework and
Jori's audit series as they sit in vfs-7.3.lookup. No functional changes.
* Update the comments above lookup_open(). It takes the parent inode lock
itself now but the comment still tells the caller to take it. A caller
following it deadlocks and the series added a second caller. The claim
that it returns 0 and updates @path goes as well, that one has been
wrong since v5.7.
* Give the return description of atomic_open() the colon that kernel-doc
needs. Without it the description is dropped and W=1 warns about it.
The summary line has to stand on its own line too, so the "from a
negative dentry" part moves into the body.
* Fix a space indented continuation line, three declarations without a
following blank line and a trailing */ on the last line of a block
comment.
Christian
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Christian Brauner (3):
fs/namei.c: update stale comments in lookup_open()
fs/namei.c: fix kerneldoc of atomic_open() and vfs_lookup_open()
fs/namei.c: fix coding style in atomic_open() and lookup_open()
fs/namei.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
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base-commit: b2f1e6301efa4a80becdb0715416c3cbc693fbb4
change-id: 20260731-work-lookup-fixes-73bd87cc2d24