Re: [PATCH v8 05/11] fs: make do_mknodat() take struct filename

Linus Torvalds
2021-07-07T19:22:27Z

On Wed, Jul 7, 2021 at 5:28 AM Dmitry Kadashev <dkadashev@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Pass in the struct filename pointers instead of the user string, for
> uniformity with the recently converted do_unlinkat(), do_renameat(),
> do_mkdirat().

Yup. And the uniformity continues with that "we could avoid the goto
retry/out1 with a mknodat_helper() function for the inner meat of the
function.

Linus