On Tue, Aug 19, 2025 at 01:39:09AM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > I'm still trying to come up with something edible for lock_mount() - > the best approximation I've got so far is > > CLASS(lock_mount, mp)(path); > if (IS_ERR(mp.mp)) > bugger off ... and that does not work, since DEFINE_CLASS() has constructor return a value that gets copied into the local variable in question. Which is unusable for situations when a part of what constructor is doing is insertion of that local variable into a list. __cleanup() per se is still usable, but... no DEFINE_CLASS for that kind of data structures ;-/
