Re: [RFC PATCH 0/8] experimental struct filename followups

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2026 at 02:15:47AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 11:00:10AM +0100, Christian Brauner wrote:
> > 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 <brauner@kernel.org>
> 
> FWIW, I've folded that into #work.filename and reordered the things to a somewhat
> saner shape.  Will post the updated series shortly.
> 
> Open questions:
> 
> 	* Exports.  Currently we have getname_kernel() and putname()
> exported, while the rest of importers is not.  There is exactly one

Tbh, I don't find that too bad. It would be elegant if we could wipe
that completely but I don't think that this is a big deal...