On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 01:36:10PM +0100, Pavel Begunkov wrote: > It's used for other commands in the series, all of them are > semantically "writes", or modifying data operations if that's > better. How would you call it? Some blk_modify_validate_args, > maybe? Maybe just split the writability checks out and rename the rest blk_validate_byte_range, that way the usage is pretty clearly defined. Bonus points for writing a kerneldoc other other comment header explaining it.