Unverified Commit e2a9a3d7 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Christian Brauner
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VFS: Minor fixes for porting.rst 



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: default avatarNeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250608230952.20539-3-neil@brown.name


Reviewed-by: default avatarJeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent 2b07a5af

Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst

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@@ -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