Making lookup_one_len() safe with parent locked only shared (incoming afs series wants that) + fix of getname_kernel() regression from 2015 (-stable fodder, that one). The following changes since commit 04bbc9795d2e89c79edf48fb1303ace2e8c90a60: Merge branch 'old.dcache' into work.dcache (2018-04-04 00:40:19 -0400) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git work.namei for you to fetch changes up to 30ce4d1903e1d8a7ccd110860a5eef3c638ed8be: getname_kernel() needs to make sure that ->name != ->iname in long case (2018-04-08 11:57:10 -0400) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Viro (4): merge common parts of lookup_one_len{,_unlocked} into common helper new helper: __lookup_slow() make lookup_one_len() safe to use with directory locked shared getname_kernel() needs to make sure that ->name != ->iname in long case fs/namei.c | 124 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------------- 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-)