On Mon, 2025-06-09 at 09:09 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: > This paragraph was relevant for an earlier version of the code which > passed the qstr as a struct instead of a point. The version that landed > passed the pointer in all cases so this para is now pointless. > > Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@xxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 3 --- > 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst > index 3616d7161dab..e8c9f21582d1 100644 > --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst > +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst > @@ -1224,9 +1224,6 @@ lookup_noperm_unlocked(), lookup_noperm_positive_unlocked(). They now > take a qstr instead of separate name and length. QSTR() can be used > when strlen() is needed for the length. > > -For try_lookup_noperm() a reference to the qstr is passed in case the > -hash might subsequently be needed. > - > These function no longer do any permission checking - they previously > checked that the caller has 'X' permission on the parent. They must > ONLY be used internally by a filesystem on itself when it knows that Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>
