Assorted cleanups in various filesystems. Currently that pile sits in vfs.git #work.misc; if anyone wants to pick these into relevant filesystem tree, I'll be glad to drop those from the queue... Diffstat: fs/affs/namei.c | 3 --- fs/befs/linuxvfs.c | 3 --- fs/bfs/dir.c | 5 ----- fs/ceph/dir.c | 21 +++++++++++++-------- fs/ceph/export.c | 2 -- fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 -- fs/gfs2/export.c | 2 -- fs/gfs2/super.c | 12 +----------- fs/hostfs/hostfs_kern.c | 8 ++------ fs/kernfs/mount.c | 3 --- fs/nfsd/nfsctl.c | 4 ---- fs/nilfs2/namei.c | 7 +------ fs/ocfs2/dcache.c | 7 ------- fs/ocfs2/dir.c | 9 --------- fs/orangefs/dir.c | 32 ++++++++++++-------------------- fs/proc/proc_sysctl.c | 14 ++------------ fs/reiserfs/namei.c | 7 ------- fs/udf/namei.c | 11 +---------- fs/zonefs/super.c | 2 -- security/apparmor/apparmorfs.c | 7 +------ 20 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 128 deletions(-) Shortlog: Al Viro (22): hostfs: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits /proc/sys: use d_splice_alias() calling conventions to simplify failure exits zonefs: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode udf: d_splice_alias() will do the right thing on ERR_PTR() inode affs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing befs: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing ceph: d_obtain_{alias,root}(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing gfs2: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing kernfs: d_obtain_alias(NULL) will do the right thing... nilfs2: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing... udf: d_obtain_alias(ERR_PTR(...)) will do the right thing... ext4_add_entry(): ->d_name.len is never 0 bfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless ->d_name.len checks __ocfs2_add_entry(), ocfs2_prepare_dir_for_insert() reiserfs_add_entry(): get rid of pointless namelen checks udf_fiiter_add_entry(): check for zero ->d_name.len is bogus... get rid of passing callbacks to ceph __dentry_leases_walk() nfsd: kill stale comment about simple_fill_super() requirements ocfs2_find_match(): there's no such thing as NULL or negative ->d_parent gfs2: use is_subdir() orangefs: saner arguments passing in readdir guts apparmorfs: don't duplicate kfree_link() First group (1--11) is about making use of d_splice_alias() and d_obtain_alias() calling conventions; a bunch of failure exits are pointless, since the primitive will do the right thing. Then (12--16) killing impossible checks for dentry name length (never 0, never exceeds what ->lookup() would reject with ENAMETOOLONG). The rest is really without any common theme... As far as I can tell, nothing in there has conflicts in linux-next. Individual patches in followups. Please, review; again, if anything of that gets picked by relevant filesystem tree, I'll gladly drop it from this branch.