Re: [PATCH 5.10 12/19] vboxsf: Make vboxsf_dir_create() return the handle for the created file

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Sun Aug 15 2021 - 07:43:35 EST


On Fri, Aug 13, 2021 at 09:31:58PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > commit ab0c29687bc7a890d1a86ac376b0b0fd78b2d9b6 upstream
> >
> > Make vboxsf_dir_create() optionally return the vboxsf-handle for
> > the created file. This is a preparation patch for adding atomic_open
> > support.
>
> Follow up commits using this functionality are in 5.13 but not in
> 5.10, so I believe we don't need this in 5.10, either?

It was asked to be backported, so I'll leave it in for now, thanks.

greg k-h