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SubjectRe: [GIT PULL] overlayfs update for 4.9
On Wed, Oct 05, 2016 at 09:52:10PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Hi Al,
>
> Please pull from:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-viro
>
> This has an assortment of fixes and cleanups for overlayfs.
>
> It also touches the VFS:
>
> - add the vfs_get_link() helper for calling i_op->get_link();
> - fix mnt_want_write_file() to freeze protect the underlying sb instead of
> overlay sb;
> - allow vfs_clone_file_range() to be called by overlayfs.

Could you explain why e.g. fsetxattr() needs a different treatment in
"vfs: mnt_want_write_file() should freeze protect underlying sb"?

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