Re: [PATCH v8 00/11] io_uring: add mkdir and [sym]linkat support

Dmitry Kadashev
2021-07-07T12:34:28Z

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 7:27 PM Dmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> This started out as an attempt to add mkdirat support to io_uring which
> is heavily based on renameat() / unlinkat() support.
>
> During the review process more operations were added (linkat, symlinkat,
> mknodat) mainly to keep things uniform internally (in namei.c), and
> with things changed in namei.c adding support for these operations to
> io_uring is trivial, so that was done too (except for mknodat). See
> https://lore.kernel.org/io-uring/20210514145259.wtl4xcsp52woi6ab@wittgenstein/

Christian, I've kept your Acked-by on the old commits, since changes
there are pretty minimal (conditional putname()s are unconditional now,
and with __filename_* functions not consuming their args now some goto
labels changed). Hope that was the right thing to do.

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Dmitry Kadashev