orangefs fix + series of fs/namei.c cleanups from me + VFS stuff coming from overlayfs tree. The following changes since commit f1ef09fde17f9b77ca1435a5b53a28b203afb81c: Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/user-namespace (2017-02-23 20:33:51 -0800) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git for-linus for you to fetch changes up to 653a7746fa2f5369985f5368ffc162b6510db6c8: Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/for-viro' into for-linus (2017-03-02 06:41:22 -0500) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Viro (6): namei: fold unlazy_link() into its sole caller lookup_fast(): clean up the logics around the fallback to non-rcu mode namei.c: fold the check for DCACHE_OP_REVALIDATE into d_revalidate() namei.c: split unlazy_walk() Merge branch 'work.namei' into for-linus Merge remote-tracking branch 'ovl/for-viro' into for-linus Amir Goldstein (4): vfs: create vfs helper vfs_tmpfile() vfs: deny fallocate() on directory vfs: deny copy_file_range() for non regular files vfs: wrap write f_ops with file_{start,end}_write() Miklos Szeredi (5): vfs: extract common parts of {compat_,}do_readv_writev() vfs: pass type instead of fn to do_{loop,iter}_readv_writev() vfs: use helpers for calling f_op->{read,write}_iter() mm: use helper for calling f_op->mmap() vfs: use helper for calling f_op->fsync() Peter Zijlstra (1): orangefs: Use RCU for destroy_inode drivers/block/loop.c | 4 +- drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_gem_dmabuf.c | 2 +- drivers/gpu/drm/vgem/vgem_drv.c | 2 +- fs/aio.c | 4 +- fs/coda/file.c | 2 +- fs/namei.c | 251 ++++++++++++++++++--------------- fs/open.c | 14 +- fs/orangefs/super.c | 9 +- fs/read_write.c | 130 ++++++++--------- fs/splice.c | 2 +- fs/sync.c | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 52 +++++-- ipc/shm.c | 4 +- mm/mmap.c | 2 +- mm/nommu.c | 4 +- 15 files changed, 261 insertions(+), 223 deletions(-)