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From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fs: export vfs_stat() and vfs_fstatat()
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On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 05:48:25PM +0800, Yicong Yang wrote:
> Sorry for not describing the issues I met correctly in the commit message.
> Actually we're using inline function vfs_stat() for getting the
> attributes, which calls vfs_fstatat():

Again, there generally isn't much need to look at the stat data
for an in-kernel caller.  But without you submitting the code I can't
really help you anyway.