From: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
To: stable@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>,
linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org,
Andreas Dilger <adilger.kernel@dilger.ca>,
Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>,
Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>,
Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>,
Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6.6.y] ext4: get rid of ppath in get_ext_path()
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2026 22:04:56 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2026070315-stable-reply-0001@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260702154810.3435236-1-yoann.congal@smile.fr>
On Thu, Jul 02, 2026 at 05:48:10PM +0200, Yoann Congal wrote:
> From: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
>
> [ Upstream commit 6b854d552711aa33f59eda334e6d94a00d8825bb ]
>
> The use of path and ppath is now very confusing, so to make the code more
> readable, pass path between functions uniformly, and get rid of ppath.
>
> After getting rid of ppath in get_ext_path(), its caller may pass an error
> pointer to ext4_free_ext_path(), so it needs to teach ext4_free_ext_path()
> and ext4_ext_drop_refs() to skip the error pointer. No functional changes.
Queued for 6.6.y, thanks!
--
Thanks,
Sasha
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-02 15:48 [PATCH 6.6.y] ext4: get rid of ppath in get_ext_path() Yoann Congal
2026-07-03 16:20 ` Yoann Congal
2026-07-04 2:04 ` Sasha Levin [this message]
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