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[46.135.89.171]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id ffacd0b85a97d-43cf21e2a7asm6713033f8f.7.2026.03.28.10.58.44 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sat, 28 Mar 2026 10:58:45 -0700 (PDT) From: Mateusz Guzik To: brauner@kernel.org Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, jack@suse.cz, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, Mateusz Guzik Subject: [PATCH] fs: write a better comment in step_into() concerning .mnt assignment Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:58:40 +0100 Message-ID: <20260328175841.3390950-1-mjguzik@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.43.0 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Signed-off-by: Mateusz Guzik Reviewed-by: Jan Kara --- fs/namei.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/fs/namei.c b/fs/namei.c index 2113958c3b7a..c7fac83c9a85 100644 --- a/fs/namei.c +++ b/fs/namei.c @@ -2140,7 +2140,7 @@ static __always_inline const char *step_into(struct n= ameidata *nd, int flags, if (unlikely(!inode)) return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT); nd->path.dentry =3D dentry; - /* nd->path.mnt is retained on purpose */ + /* nd->path.mnt remains unchanged as no mount point was crossed */ nd->inode =3D inode; nd->seq =3D nd->next_seq; return NULL; --=20 2.48.1