On Tue, Sep 07, 2021 at 02:43:48PM -0700, Stephen Brennan wrote: > >From the links in the blame it seems this was suggested by Linus > here[1]. The core frustration having been with the state of > __filename_create() and friends freeing filenames at different times > depending on whether an error occurred. Sure, but that's an argument for IS_ERR(), not the IS_ERR_OR_NULL() shite...