[PATCHES] struct path constification

[Christian Brauner]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2022 at 07:10:38PM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> 	This is mostly whack-a-mole stuff - a bunch of places
> are passing struct path pointers around, without bothering
> to mark them const, even though they are not going to try
> and modify the contents of struct path.
> 
> 	It's a bad practice, since there are invariants along
> the lines of "file->f_path stays unchanged open-to-release"
> and verifying those can get very unpleasant when you are
> forced to take detours down the long call chains that could've
> been avoided.
> 
> 	Patches in that pile are independent from each other
> and if anyone wants to grab some of them into subsystem's
> tree - just say so; I'll be happy to exclude those from the
> vfs.git branch if they go into another tree.
> 
> 	Currently they are in vfs.git#work.path; individual
> patches in followups.
> 

Looks good,
Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner at kernel.org>