On Thu, Jun 12, 2025 at 7:59 AM NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > all users of 'struct renamedata' have the dentry for the old and new > directories, and often have no use for the inode except to store it in > the renamedata. > > This patch changes struct renamedata to hold the dentry, rather than > the inode, for the old and new directories, and changes callers to > match. > > This results in the removal of several local variables and several > dereferences of ->d_inode at the cost of adding ->d_inode dereferences > to vfs_rename(). > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> For ksmbd part, Reviewed-by: Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxxx> Thanks!
