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Christian Brauner 4e5c53e038
Merge patch series "VFS: improve interface for lookup_one functions"
NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> says:

VFS has some functions with names containing "lookup_one_len" and others
without the "_len".  This difference has nothing to do with "len".  This
is an historical accident but can be confusing.

The functions without "_len" take a "mnt_idmap" pointer.  This is found
in the "vfsmount" and that is an important question when choosing which
to use: do you have a vfsmount, or are you "inside" the filesystem.  A
related question is "is permission checking relevant here?".

nfsd and cachefiles *do* have a vfsmount but *don't* use the non-_len
functions.  They pass nop_mnt_idmap and refuse to work on filesystems
which have any other idmap.

This series changes nfsd and cachefile to use the lookup_one family of
functions and to explictily pass &nop_mnt_idmap which is consistent with
all other vfs interfaces used where &nop_mnt_idmap is explicitly passed.

The remaining uses of the "_one" functions do not require permission
checks so these are renamed to be "_noperm" and the permission checking
is removed.

This series also changes these lookup function to take a qstr instead of
separate name and len.  In many cases this simplifies the call.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-2-neil@brown.name:
  VFS: change lookup_one_common and lookup_noperm_common to take a qstr
  Use try_lookup_noperm() instead of d_hash_and_lookup() outside of VFS
  VFS: rename lookup_one_len family to lookup_noperm and remove permission check
  cachefiles: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len()
  nfsd: Use lookup_one() rather than lookup_one_len()
  VFS: improve interface for lookup_one functions

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250319031545.2999807-2-neil@brown.name
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
History 2025-04-08 11:24:42 +02:00
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