This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
NFSD: remove vanity comments
to the 5.10-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:
nfsd-remove-vanity-comments.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 9d0f13f76f9bc152e8bbf492836232e4e84bdec0
Author: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed Jul 28 08:56:09 2021 +1000
NFSD: remove vanity comments
[ Upstream commit ea49dc79002c416a9003f3204bc14f846a0dbcae ]
Including one's name in copyright claims is appropriate. Including it
in random comments is just vanity. After 2 decades, it is time for
these to be gone.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index 05b5f7e241e70..2c493937dd5ec 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -244,7 +244,6 @@ nfsd_lookup_dentry(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
* returned. Otherwise the covered directory is returned.
* NOTE: this mountpoint crossing is not supported properly by all
* clients and is explicitly disallowed for NFSv3
- * NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
*/
__be32
nfsd_lookup(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp, const char *name,
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h b/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h
index 427294dd56a1b..e29e8accc4f4d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/nfsd/nfsfh.h
@@ -33,7 +33,6 @@ struct nfs_fhbase_old {
/*
* This is the new flexible, extensible style NFSv2/v3/v4 file handle.
- * by Neil Brown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> - March 2000
*
* The file handle starts with a sequence of four-byte words.
* The first word contains a version number (1) and three descriptor bytes
