On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 03:45:59PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote: > Introduce a dentry revalidation helper to be used by case-insensitive > filesystems to check if it is safe to reuse a negative dentry. > > A negative dentry is safe to be reused on a case-insensitive lookup if > it was created during a case-insensitive lookup and this is not a lookup > that will instantiate a dentry. If this is a creation lookup, we also > need to make sure the name matches sensitively the name under lookup in > order to assure the name preserving semantics. > > Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
