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Date: Wed, 11 Jun 2025 13:43:01 +0200
From: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
To: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>, Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>, 
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Minor cleanup preparation for some dir-locking API
 changes
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On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 09:09:32AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote:
> The following 5 patches provide further cleanup that serves as
> preparation for some dir-locking API changes that I want to make.  The
> most interesting is the last which makes another change to vfs_mkdir().
> As well as returning the dentry or consuming it on failure (a recent
> change) it now also unlocks on failure.  This will be needed when we
> transition to locking just the dentry, not the whole directory.

All of the patches except the vfs_mkdir() one that Al is looking at
make sense as independent cleanups imho. So I'd take them unless I hear
screams.