Commit b15fb70b authored Mar 31, 2017 by Eric Biggers Committed by Al Viro Apr 03, 2017

statx: remove incorrect part of vfs_statx() comment



request_mask and query_flags are function arguments, not passed in
struct kstat.  So remove the part of the comment which claims otherwise.
This was apparently left over from an earlier version of the statx
patch.

Signed-off-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

parent 8c7493aa

fs/stat.c

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		@@ -159,9 +159,6 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_statx_fd);
		* Additionally, the use of AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW in flags will prevent a symlink
		* at the given name from being referenced.
		*
		* The caller must have preset stat->request_mask as for vfs_getattr(). The
		* flags are also used to load up stat->query_flags.
		*
		* 0 will be returned on success, and a -ve error code if unsuccessful.
		*/
		int vfs_statx(int dfd, const char __user *filename, int flags,

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