On Mon, Jun 09, 2025 at 09:09:32AM +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > The following 5 patches provide further cleanup that serves as > preparation for some dir-locking API changes that I want to make. The > most interesting is the last which makes another change to vfs_mkdir(). > As well as returning the dentry or consuming it on failure (a recent > change) it now also unlocks on failure. This will be needed when we > transition to locking just the dentry, not the whole directory. All of the patches except the vfs_mkdir() one that Al is looking at make sense as independent cleanups imho. So I'd take them unless I hear screams.
