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| author | NeilBrown <neil@brown.name> | 2026-07-01 21:51:55 +1000 |
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| committer | Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> | 2026-07-31 10:18:30 +0200 |
| commit | b2f1e6301efa4a80becdb0715416c3cbc693fbb4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8819a690b49c39efe79b59fd9d06fd299e510d51 /include/linux | |
| parent | 7b53e200d3d222769b64037033fd8311e2bf5843 (diff) | |
Remove excl arg to ->create inode_operation
The only time that 'false' is passed as the 'excl' arg to the ->create
inode_operation is in lookup_open() when ->atomic_open is not provided
by the parent directory.
*all* directory inode_operations which do not have ->atomic_open
completely ignore the 'excl' arg.
Therefore we don't need the 'excl' arg. Those few ->create operations
which pay attention to the arg are only ever called with a value of
'true'.
We remove that arg and change all ->create operations to behave as those
thhe arg were 'true'.
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/178290671516.27465.15984496764174914338@noble.neil.brown.name
Reviewed-by: Jori Koolstra <jkoolstra@xs4all.nl>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/fs.h | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h index d10897b3a1e3..1b7c40b2fa6d 100644 --- a/include/linux/fs.h +++ b/include/linux/fs.h @@ -2002,7 +2002,7 @@ struct inode_operations { int (*readlink) (struct dentry *, char __user *,int); int (*create) (struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,struct dentry *, - umode_t, bool); + umode_t); int (*link) (struct dentry *,struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*unlink) (struct inode *,struct dentry *); int (*symlink) (struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,struct dentry *, |