Re: [PATCH v5 2/3] exfat: retain the next empty directory entry hint

From: Yang Wen

Date: Wed Sep 23 2026 - 08:37:05 EST



Thank you for catching this.

I have updated the error path to invalidate the name filter immediately
after the initial exfat_put_dentry_set() failure, before attempting the
cleanup.

I verified the updated series with a dirsync I/O failure test. The create
operation returned -EIO, and the filter count decreased from two to one,
confirming that the affected directory's filter was invalidated. I will
include the fix in v6.

Thanks again for the careful review.