Re: [PATCH 2/7] cifs: Improve creating native symlinks pointing to directory

["Pali Rohár" <pali@kernel.org>]

On Sunday 29 September 2024 16:54:20 Steve French wrote:
> Here is a version of the same patch without the function rename (so
> presumably easier to backport) and also that fixes to minor checkpatch
> warnings (and merged this and also patches 3, 4 and 6 into
> cifs-2.6.git for-next pending additional review and tesitng):

That is fine for me. Just one minor nit suggestion.

> @@ -69,7 +192,8 @@ int smb2_create_reparse_symlink(const unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
>  	iov.iov_base = buf;
>  	iov.iov_len = len;
>  	new = smb2_get_reparse_inode(&data, inode->i_sb, xid,
> -				     tcon, full_path, &iov, NULL);
> +					tcon, full_path, directory,
> +					&iov, NULL);

After reverting back the original function name, you can indent/align
arguments for all smb2_get_reparse_inode occurrences.

>  	if (!IS_ERR(new))
>  		d_instantiate(dentry, new);
>  	else
> @@ -137,7 +261,7 @@ static int mknod_nfs(unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
>  	};
>  
>  	new = smb2_get_reparse_inode(&data, inode->i_sb, xid,
> -				     tcon, full_path, &iov, NULL);
> +					tcon, full_path, false, &iov, NULL);
>  	if (!IS_ERR(new))
>  		d_instantiate(dentry, new);
>  	else
> @@ -283,7 +407,7 @@ static int mknod_wsl(unsigned int xid, struct inode *inode,
>  	data.wsl.eas_len = len;
>  
>  	new = smb2_get_reparse_inode(&data, inode->i_sb,
> -				     xid, tcon, full_path,
> +					xid, tcon, full_path, false,
>  				     &reparse_iov, &xattr_iov);

Here the misaligning on + line is visible too.

>  	if (!IS_ERR(new))
>  		d_instantiate(dentry, new);