On Mon, 17 Feb 2025 11:27:20 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> No callers of kern_path_locked() or user_path_locked_at() want a
> negative dentry. So change them to return -ENOENT instead. This
> simplifies callers.
>
> This results in a subtle change to bcachefs in that an ioctl will now
> return -ENOENT in preference to -EXDEV. I believe this restores the
> behaviour to what it was prior to
> Commit bbe6a7c899e7 ("bch2_ioctl_subvolume_destroy(): fix locking")
>
> [...]
Applied to the vfs-6.15.async.dir branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs-6.15.async.dir branch should appear in linux-next soon.
Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.
It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.
Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.
tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs-6.15.async.dir
[1/2] VFS: change kern_path_locked() and user_path_locked_at() to never return negative dentry
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/a97b8bfbb9f1
[2/2] VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/20c2c1baa9ab
