Hey Linus, /* Summary */ This contains two minor fixes for Jan's rename locking work: (1) Unlocking the source inode was guarded by a check whether source was non-NULL. This doesn't make sense because source must be non-NULL and the commit message explains in detail why. (2) The lock_two_nondirectories() helper called WARN_ON_ONCE() and dereferenced the inodes unconditionally but the underlying lock_two_inodes() helper and the kernel documentation for that function are clear that it is valid to pass NULL arguments. So here a non-NULL check is needed. No caller does pass non-NULL arguments but let's not knowingly leave landmines around. /* Testing */ clang: Ubuntu clang version 15.0.7 gcc: (Ubuntu 12.2.0-3ubuntu1) 12.2.0 /* Conflicts */ At the time of creating this PR no merge conflicts were reported from linux-next and no merge conflicts showed up doing a test-merge with current mainline. All patches are based on current mainline. No build failures or warnings were observed. All old and new tests in fstests, selftests, and LTP pass without regressions. The following changes since commit 24be4d0b46bb0c3c1dc7bacd30957d6144a70dfc: arch/arm64/mm/fault: Fix undeclared variable error in do_page_fault() (2023-07-03 19:04:32 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: git@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs tags/v6.5/vfs.fixes.2 for you to fetch changes up to 33ab231f83cc12d0157711bbf84e180c3be7d7bc: fs: don't assume arguments are non-NULL (2023-07-04 10:21:11 +0200) Please consider pulling these changes from the signed v6.5/vfs.fixes.2 tag. Thanks! Christian ---------------------------------------------------------------- v6.5/vfs.fixes.2 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Christian Brauner (1): fs: don't assume arguments are non-NULL Jan Kara (1): fs: no need to check source fs/inode.c | 6 ++++-- fs/namei.c | 3 +-- 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)