Re: [PATCH v2 0/2] allow overlayfs to do RCU lookups

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Aug 18 2021 - 10:26:27 EST


On Wed, Aug 18, 2021 at 03:33:58PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> I'd really like to fix this in some form, but not getting any response
> [1][2][3].
>
> Al, Linus, can you please comment?
>
> I'm happy to take this through the overlayfs tree, just need an ACK for the
> VFS API change.

Looks reasonable enough; I'm not too happy about yet another place LOOKUP_...
details get tangled into, though. Do we want it to be more than just a
bool rcu?