Re: [PATCH 6.6.y] ext4: get rid of ppath in get_ext_path()

["Yoann Congal" <yoann.congal@smile.fr>]

On Thu Jul 2, 2026 at 5:48 PM CEST, 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.
>
> Signed-off-by: Baokun Li <libaokun1@huawei.com>
> Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
> Reviewed-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
> Tested-by: Ojaswin Mujoo <ojaswin@linux.ibm.com>
> Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20240822023545.1994557-13-libaokun@huaweicloud.com
> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
>
> Signed-off-by: Yoann Congal <yoann.congal@smile.fr>
> ---

Hello,

I missed it at first but a discussion about the same issue is happening
here:
https://lore.kernel.org/all/tencent_C982B0201FE8F041BD5B4FC1ED7D646A740A@qq.com/
But the above is a partial backport whereas mine is the full backport.

Regards,
-- 
Yoann Congal
Smile ECS