On Tue, Aug 12, 2025 at 12:25:04PM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > During the time when "err2" holds a value, "error" does not hold any > meaningful value. So there is no need for two different err variables. > This patch discards "err2" and uses "error' throughout. I'd probably replace the first sentence with something like this: Since 204a575e91f3 "VFS: add common error checks to lookup_one_qstr_excl()" filename_create() does not need to stash the error value from mnt_want_write() into a separate variable - the logics that used to clobber 'error' after the call of mnt_want_write() has migrated into lookup_one_qstr_excl().
