On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 at 00:58, Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Frankly, looking at that stuff... I wonder if we should add
> vfs_parse_fs_qstr() for "comes with length" variant and lose the length
> argument of vfs_parse_fs_string().
Yeah, I had had the same reaction that the whole "str,len" thing could
be a qstr.
So no objections.
> Yes, it's a flagday change.
Yes, not optimal, but there aren't that many call-sites, and as you
say, anything that gets messed up (due to stable backports or
whatever) will be caught by the compiler anyway.
Linus
