On Fri, Nov 06, 2020 at 12:49:05PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > On 06/11/2020 10:08, Dmitry Kadashev wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 05, 2020 at 08:57:43PM +0000, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > > That's pretty much what do_unlinkat() does btw. Thanks Pavel for looking > > into this! > > > > Can I pick your brain some more? do_mkdirat() case is slightly > > different: > > > > static long do_mkdirat(int dfd, const char __user *pathname, umode_t mode) > > { > > struct dentry *dentry; > > struct path path; > > int error; > > unsigned int lookup_flags = LOOKUP_DIRECTORY; > > > > retry: > > dentry = user_path_create(dfd, pathname, &path, lookup_flags); > > > > If we just change @pathname to struct filename, then user_path_create > > can be swapped for filename_create(). But the same problem on retry > > arises. Is there some more or less "idiomatic" way to solve this? > > I don't think there is, fs guys may have a different opinion but > sometimes it's hard to get through them. > > I'd take a filename reference before "retry:" How do I do that? Just `++name.refcnt` or is there a helper function / better way? -- Dmitry