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Date:   Wed, 11 Jul 2018 03:59:20 +0100
From:   Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 16/42] now we can fold open_check_o_direct() into
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On Tue, Jul 10, 2018 at 07:44:59PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I like the patch, I hate the commit message.
> 
> It makes sense right now in this sequence, but I'd really like the
> commit message to say _why_ this sequence led up to this point.
> 
> Right now I still remember you trying this, and having to revert it
> because it didn't work before all the fput/put_filp issues. But a year
> from now? Five years from now?
> 
> So at least a "now that fput() works regardless of how far the open
> got.." kind of explanation, ok?

Umm...  Something like

These checks are better off in do_dentry_open(); the reason we couldn't
put them there used to be that callers couldn't tell what kind of cleanup
would do_dentry_open() failure call for.  Now that we have FMODE_OPENED,
cleanup is the same in all cases - it's simply fput().  So let's fold
that into do_dentry_open(), as Christoph's patch tried to.

perhaps?