On Tue, Jan 26 2021, Fox Chen wrote:

> No path_to_namei() anymore, step_into() will be called.
> Related commit: c99687a03a78775f77d57fe9b07af4c8ec3dd03c
>
> Signed-off-by: Fox Chen <foxhlchen@gmail.com>
> ---
>  Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> index e778db767120..2ad96e1e3c49 100644
> --- a/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/path-lookup.rst
> @@ -455,7 +455,7 @@ In the absence of symbolic links, ``walk_component()`` creates a new
>  ``struct path`` containing a counted reference to the new dentry and a
>  reference to the new ``vfsmount`` which is only counted if it is
>  different from the previous ``vfsmount``.  It then calls
> -``path_to_nameidata()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
> +``step_into()`` to install the new ``struct path`` in the
>  ``struct nameidata`` and drop the unneeded references.

The logic describe here is now embodied by the code in step_into(), so
the change doesn't make the description any more correct.

Possibly you need to change the hero of the story from walk_component()
to step_into(), but that is just a guess.

NeilBrown


>  
>  This "hand-over-hand" sequencing of getting a reference to the new
> -- 
> 2.30.0