Re: [GIT PULL 16/17 for v6.19] vfs fd prepare

[Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>]

On Fri, Nov 28, 2025 at 05:48:27PM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> Hey Linus,
> 
> /* Summary */
> Note: This work came late in the cycle but the series is quite nice and
> worth doing. It removes roughly double the code that it adds and
> eliminates a lot of convoluted cleanup logic across the kernel.
> 
> An alternative pull request (vfs-6.19-rc1.fd_prepare.fs) is available
> that contains only the more simple filesystem-focused conversions in
> case you'd like to pull something more conservative.
> 
> Note this branch also contains two reverts for the KVM FD_PREPARE()
> conversions as the KVM maintainers have indicated they would like to
> take those changes through the KVM tree in the next cycle. Also gets rid
> of a merge conflict. I chose a revert to not rebase the branch
> unnecessarily so close to the merge window.

Frankly, that hadn't gotten anywhere near enough exposure in -next and
it's far too large and invasive.  The same lack of exposure goes for
the alternative branch.