On Thu, Jan 08, 2026 at 07:41:53AM +0000, Al Viro wrote: > This series switches the filename-consuming primitives to variants > that leave dropping the reference(s) to caller. These days it's > fairly painless, and results look simpler wrt lifetime rules: > * with 3 exceptions, all instances have constructors and destructors > happen in the same scope (via CLASS(filename...), at that) > * CLASS(filename_consume) has no users left, could be dropped. > * exceptions are: > * audit dropping the references it stashed in audit_names > * fsconfig(2) creating and dropping references in two > subcommands > * fs_lookup_param() playing silly buggers. > That's it. > If we go that way, this will certainly get reordered back into the main series > and have several commits in there ripped apart and folded into these ones. > E.g. no sense to convert do_renameat2() et.al. to filename_consume, only to > have that followed by the first 6 commits here, etc. > > For now I've put those into #experimental.filename, on top of #work.filename. > Comments would be very welcome...
Yeah, that looks nice. I like this a lot more than having calleee consume it. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <[email protected]>
