On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 09:51:05PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> calls in ->unlink(), ->rmdir() and ->rename() make sense - we want
> to prevent the underlying dentries going negative there. In
> ->symlink() and ->link() they are absolutely pointless.
[snip]
FWIW, that patch series can also be found in
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git #work.ecryptfs;
Shortlog:
Al Viro (4):
ecryptfs: get rid of pointless dget/dput in ->symlink() and ->link()
ecryptfs: saner API for lock_parent()
ecryptfs: get rid of unused accessors
ecryptfs: ecryptfs_dentry_info->crypt_stat is never used
Diffstat:
fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 17 +----
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 163 +++++++++++++++++++-----------------------
2 files changed, 75 insertions(+), 105 deletions(-)
