linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fs: modify the annotation of vfs

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Message-ID: <Zm1DZaaUF_tspmmQ@infradead.org>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2024 00:31:49 -0700
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>, Congjie Zhou <zcjie0802@...com>,
	brauner@...nel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fs: modify the annotation of vfs_mkdir() in fs/namei.c

On Sat, Jun 15, 2024 at 07:55:28AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> It is an inode of _some_ dentry; it's most definitely not that
> of the argument named 'dentry'.

No need to explain it here, the point was that this belongs into a
useful commit message.