On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This reverts commit a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb. > > No user of d_real_inode() remains, so it can be removed. > FYI, there is a new user in v4.17-rc1 added by commit f0a2aa5a2a40 tracing/uprobe: Add support for overlayfs Seems like this patch got merged without any CC to overlayfs mailing list nor maintainer? Not sure yet if overlayfs-rorw patches would allow reverting this change. Thanks, Amir.