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Message-Id: <20251105-dir-deleg-ro-v5-9-7ebc168a88ac@kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 05 Nov 2025 11:53:55 -0500
From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
To: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>, 
 Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, 
 Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>, Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, 
 Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>, 
 Alexander Aring <alex.aring@...il.com>, 
 Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...nel.org>, Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>, 
 Steve French <sfrench@...ba.org>, Paulo Alcantara <pc@...guebit.org>, 
 Ronnie Sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@...il.com>, 
 Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@...rosoft.com>, Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>, 
 Bharath SM <bharathsm@...rosoft.com>, 
 Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, 
 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>, Danilo Krummrich <dakr@...nel.org>, 
 David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, Tyler Hicks <code@...icks.com>, 
 NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>, Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@...hat.com>, 
 Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@...cle.com>, Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>, 
 Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@...nel.org>, Steve French <smfrench@...il.com>, 
 Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@...omium.org>, 
 Carlos Maiolino <cem@...nel.org>, Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@...gle.com>, 
 "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>, 
 Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>, 
 Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, 
 samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, netfs@...ts.linux.dev, 
 ecryptfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, 
 Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>, NeilBrown <neilb@...mail.net>
Subject: [PATCH v5 09/17] vfs: clean up argument list for vfs_create()

As Neil points out:

"I would be in favour of dropping the "dir" arg because it is always
d_inode(dentry->d_parent) which is stable."

...and...

"Also *every* caller of vfs_create() passes ".excl = true".  So maybe we
don't need that arg at all."

Drop both arguments from vfs_create() and fix up the callers.

Suggested-by: NeilBrown <neilb@...mail.net>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>
---
 fs/ecryptfs/inode.c      |  3 +--
 fs/namei.c               | 11 ++++-------
 fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c       |  2 +-
 fs/nfsd/vfs.c            |  3 +--
 fs/open.c                |  4 +---
 fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h |  2 +-
 fs/smb/server/vfs.c      |  3 +--
 include/linux/fs.h       |  3 +--
 8 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
index 88631291b32535f623a3fbe4ea9b6ed48a306ca0..d109e3763a88150bfe64cd2d5564dc9802ef3386 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/inode.c
@@ -188,8 +188,7 @@ ecryptfs_do_create(struct inode *directory_inode,
 
 	rc = lock_parent(ecryptfs_dentry, &lower_dentry, &lower_dir);
 	if (!rc)
-		rc = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, lower_dir,
-				lower_dentry, mode, true);
+		rc = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, lower_dentry, mode);
 	if (rc) {
 		printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Failure to create dentry in lower fs; "
 		       "rc = [%d]\n", __func__, rc);
diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c
index f439429bdfa271ccc64c937771ef4175597feb53..9586c6aba6eae05a9fc3c103b8501d98767bef53 100644
--- a/fs/namei.c
+++ b/fs/namei.c
@@ -3461,10 +3461,8 @@ static inline umode_t vfs_prepare_mode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 /**
  * vfs_create - create new file
  * @idmap:	idmap of the mount the inode was found from
- * @dir:	inode of the parent directory
  * @dentry:	dentry of the child file
  * @mode:	mode of the child file
- * @want_excl:	whether the file must not yet exist
  *
  * Create a new file.
  *
@@ -3474,9 +3472,9 @@ static inline umode_t vfs_prepare_mode(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
  * On non-idmapped mounts or if permission checking is to be performed on the
  * raw inode simply pass @nop_mnt_idmap.
  */
-int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
-	       struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode, bool want_excl)
+int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct dentry *dentry, umode_t mode)
 {
+	struct inode *dir = d_inode(dentry->d_parent);
 	int error;
 
 	error = may_create(idmap, dir, dentry);
@@ -3490,7 +3488,7 @@ int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *idmap, struct inode *dir,
 	error = security_inode_create(dir, dentry, mode);
 	if (error)
 		return error;
-	error = dir->i_op->create(idmap, dir, dentry, mode, want_excl);
+	error = dir->i_op->create(idmap, dir, dentry, mode, true);
 	if (!error)
 		fsnotify_create(dir, dentry);
 	return error;
@@ -4383,8 +4381,7 @@ static int do_mknodat(int dfd, struct filename *name, umode_t mode,
 	idmap = mnt_idmap(path.mnt);
 	switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
 		case 0: case S_IFREG:
-			error = vfs_create(idmap, path.dentry->d_inode,
-					   dentry, mode, true);
+			error = vfs_create(idmap, dentry, mode);
 			if (!error)
 				security_path_post_mknod(idmap, dentry);
 			break;
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
index b6d03e1ef5f7a5e8dd111b0d56c061f1e91abff7..30ea7ffa2affdb9a959b0fd15a630de056d6dc3c 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c
@@ -344,7 +344,7 @@ nfsd3_create_file(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 	status = fh_fill_pre_attrs(fhp);
 	if (status != nfs_ok)
 		goto out;
-	host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, inode, child, iap->ia_mode, true);
+	host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, child, iap->ia_mode);
 	if (host_err < 0) {
 		status = nfserrno(host_err);
 		goto out;
diff --git a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
index c400ea94ff2e837fd59719bf2c4b79ef1d064743..464fd54675f3b16fce9ae5f05ad22e0e6b363eb3 100644
--- a/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/nfsd/vfs.c
@@ -1552,8 +1552,7 @@ nfsd_create_locked(struct svc_rqst *rqstp, struct svc_fh *fhp,
 	err = 0;
 	switch (type) {
 	case S_IFREG:
-		host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, dirp, dchild,
-				      iap->ia_mode, true);
+		host_err = vfs_create(&nop_mnt_idmap, dchild, iap->ia_mode);
 		if (!host_err)
 			nfsd_check_ignore_resizing(iap);
 		break;
diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c
index fdaa6f08f6f4cac5c2fefd3eafa5e430e51f3979..e440f58e3ce81e137aabdf00510d839342a19219 100644
--- a/fs/open.c
+++ b/fs/open.c
@@ -1171,9 +1171,7 @@ struct file *dentry_create(const struct path *path, int flags, umode_t mode,
 	if (IS_ERR(f))
 		return f;
 
-	error = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path->mnt),
-			   d_inode(path->dentry->d_parent),
-			   path->dentry, mode, true);
+	error = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path->mnt), path->dentry, mode);
 	if (!error)
 		error = vfs_open(path, f);
 
diff --git a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
index d215d7349489686b66bb66e939b27046f7d836f6..2bdc434941ebc70f6d4f57cca4f68125112a7bc4 100644
--- a/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
+++ b/fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ static inline int ovl_do_create(struct ovl_fs *ofs,
 				struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
 				umode_t mode)
 {
-	int err = vfs_create(ovl_upper_mnt_idmap(ofs), dir, dentry, mode, true);
+	int err = vfs_create(ovl_upper_mnt_idmap(ofs), dentry, mode);
 
 	pr_debug("create(%pd2, 0%o) = %i\n", dentry, mode, err);
 	return err;
diff --git a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
index c5f0f3170d586cb2dc4d416b80948c642797fb82..83ece2de4b23bf9209137e7ca414a72439b5cc2e 100644
--- a/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
+++ b/fs/smb/server/vfs.c
@@ -188,8 +188,7 @@ int ksmbd_vfs_create(struct ksmbd_work *work, const char *name, umode_t mode)
 	}
 
 	mode |= S_IFREG;
-	err = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path.mnt), d_inode(path.dentry),
-			 dentry, mode, true);
+	err = vfs_create(mnt_idmap(path.mnt), dentry, mode);
 	if (!err) {
 		ksmbd_vfs_inherit_owner(work, d_inode(path.dentry),
 					d_inode(dentry));
diff --git a/include/linux/fs.h b/include/linux/fs.h
index 12873214e1c7811735ea5d2dee3d57e2a5604d8f..21876ef1fec90181b9878372c7c7e710773aae9f 100644
--- a/include/linux/fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/fs.h
@@ -2111,8 +2111,7 @@ bool inode_owner_or_capable(struct mnt_idmap *idmap,
 /*
  * VFS helper functions..
  */
-int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,
-	       struct dentry *, umode_t, bool);
+int vfs_create(struct mnt_idmap *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
 struct dentry *vfs_mkdir(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *,
 			 struct dentry *, umode_t, struct delegated_inode *);
 int vfs_mknod(struct mnt_idmap *, struct inode *, struct dentry *,

-- 
2.51.1


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