Re: [PATCH 0/5] Minor cleanup preparation for some dir-locking API changes

[Christian Brauner]

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.