Unverified Commit 8fb6857f authored by Jori Koolstra's avatar Jori Koolstra Committed by Christian Brauner
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vfs: fix docstring of hash_name() 



The docstring of hash_name() is falsely reporting that it returns the
component length, whereas it returns a pointer to the terminating '/'
or NUL character in the pathname being resolved.

Signed-off-by: default avatarJori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260318203953.5770-1-jkoolstra@xs4all.nl


Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent bd71fb3f

fs/namei.c

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@@ -2437,8 +2437,14 @@ u64 hashlen_string(const void *salt, const char *name) 
EXPORT_SYMBOL(hashlen_string);



/*

 * Calculate the length and hash of the path component, and

 * return the length as the result.

 * hash_name - Calculate the length and hash of the path component

 * @nd: the path resolution state

 * @name: the pathname to read the component from

 * @lastword: if the component fits in a single word, LAST_WORD_IS_DOT,

 * LAST_WORD_IS_DOTDOT, or some other value depending on whether the

 * component is '.', '..', or something else. Otherwise, @lastword is 0.

 *

 * Returns: a pointer to the terminating '/' or NUL character in @name.

 */

static inline const char *hash_name(struct nameidata *nd,

				    const char *name,