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

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Sun, Aug 15, 2021 at 03:57:24PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 8/13/21 9:31 PM, 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?
> > 
> > (Plus someone familiar with the code should check if we need "vboxsf:
> > Honor excl flag to the dir-inode create op" in 5.10; it may have same
> > problem).
> 
> Actually those follow up commits fix an actual bug, so I was expecting
> the person who did the backport to also submit the rest of the set.
> 
> FWIW having these patches in but not the cannot hurt.
> 
> Hopefully the rest applies cleanly, I don't know.
> 
> To be clear I'm talking about also adding the following to patches
> to 5.10.y:
> 
> 02f840f90764 ("vboxsf: Add vboxsf_[create|release]_sf_handle() helpers")
> 52dfd86aa568 ("vboxsf: Add support for the atomic_open directory-inode op")
> 
> I have no idea of these will apply cleanly.

They do, now queued up, thanks.

greg k-h