Re: [PATCH v2 01/13] fs: export mnt_idmap_get/mnt_idmap_put

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Mon Jun 05 2023 - 09:53:47 EST


On Fri, Jun 02, 2023 at 02:40:27PM +0200, Christian Brauner wrote:
> On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 05:33:03PM +0200, Alexander Mikhalitsyn wrote:
> > These helpers are required to support idmapped mounts in the Cephfs.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alexander Mikhalitsyn <aleksandr.mikhalitsyn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
>
> It's fine by me to export them. The explicit contract is that _nothing
> and absolutely nothing_ outside of core VFS code can directly peak into
> struct mnt_idmap internals. That's the only invariant we care about.o

It would be good if we could keep all these somewhat internal exports
as EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL, though.