linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 11/16] fs: allow error returns from inode_update

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Message-ID: <e0fd3629d738483c174d51aed0a80b7ee95ed34b.camel@kernel.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 09:01:03 -0500
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, David Sterba <dsterba@...e.com>, Jan
 Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Mike Marshall <hubcap@...ibond.com>, Martin
 Brandenburg	 <martin@...ibond.com>, Carlos Maiolino <cem@...nel.org>,
 Stefan Roesch	 <shr@...com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org, 	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
 gfs2@...ts.linux.dev, io-uring@...r.kernel.org, 	devel@...ts.orangefs.org,
 linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, 	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, 	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/16] fs: allow error returns from
 inode_update_timestamps

On Thu, 2025-11-20 at 07:47 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Change flags to a by reference argument so that it can be updated so that
> the return value can be used for error returns.  This will be used to
> implement non-blocking timestamp updates.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
> ---
>  fs/btrfs/inode.c    |  8 +++++---
>  fs/inode.c          | 24 ++++++++++++++++--------
>  fs/nfs/inode.c      |  4 ++--
>  fs/orangefs/inode.c |  5 ++++-
>  fs/ubifs/file.c     |  2 +-
>  include/linux/fs.h  |  2 +-
>  6 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>