This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fanotify: Remove obsoleted fanotify_event_has_path() to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: fanotify-remove-obsoleted-fanotify_event_has_path.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit 6ef2c13432e2417dd01abed8cbf6295e79b4f850 Author: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon Sep 26 10:30:18 2022 +0800 fanotify: Remove obsoleted fanotify_event_has_path() [ Upstream commit 7a80bf902d2bc722b4477442ee772e8574603185 ] All uses of fanotify_event_has_path() have been removed since commit 9c61f3b560f5 ("fanotify: break up fanotify_alloc_event()"), now it is useless, so remove it. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220926023018.1505270-1-cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Gaosheng Cui <cuigaosheng1@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx> diff --git a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h index bf6d4d38afa04..57f51a9a3015d 100644 --- a/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h +++ b/fs/notify/fanotify/fanotify.h @@ -452,12 +452,6 @@ static inline bool fanotify_is_error_event(u32 mask) return mask & FAN_FS_ERROR; } -static inline bool fanotify_event_has_path(struct fanotify_event *event) -{ - return event->type == FANOTIFY_EVENT_TYPE_PATH || - event->type == FANOTIFY_EVENT_TYPE_PATH_PERM; -} - static inline const struct path *fanotify_event_path(struct fanotify_event *event) { if (event->type == FANOTIFY_EVENT_TYPE_PATH)