Hi Stephen, Al, Miklos, I noticed that the vfs tree for-next branch is not yet in linux-next and has a merge conflict with overlayfs-next branch, already in linux-next. This is a trivial conflict due to the fact that commit f9c34674bc60 ("vfs: factor out helpers d_instantiate_anon() and d_alloc_anon()") refactors __d_obtain_alias() and changes the variable name from 'tmp' to 'dentry'. Below is the patch to resolve the conflict when merging vfs for-next onto overlayfs-next. Probably best if Al picks up the re-factoring patch to his tree anyway. Thanks, Amir. --- --- fs/dcache.c +++ fs/dcache.c @@ -1957,9 +1963,11 @@ static struct dentry *__d_instantiate_anon(struct dentry *dentry, spin_lock(&dentry->d_lock); __d_set_inode_and_type(dentry, inode, add_flags); hlist_add_head(&dentry->d_u.d_alias, &inode->i_dentry); - hlist_bl_lock(&dentry->d_sb->s_anon); - hlist_bl_add_head(&dentry->d_hash, &dentry->d_sb->s_anon); - hlist_bl_unlock(&dentry->d_sb->s_anon); + if (!disconnected) { + hlist_bl_lock(&dentry->d_sb->s_roots); + hlist_bl_add_head(&dentry->d_hash, &dentry->d_sb->s_roots); + hlist_bl_unlock(&dentry->d_sb->s_roots); + } spin_unlock(&dentry->d_lock); spin_unlock(&inode->i_lock);