The following changes since commit b13baccc3850ca8b8cccbf8ed9912dbaa0fdf7f3: Linux 5.19-rc2 (2022-06-12 16:11:37 -0700) are available in the Git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs.git tags/pull-work.namei for you to fetch changes up to 3bd8bc897161730042051cd5f9c6ed1e94cb5453: step_into(): move fetching ->d_inode past handle_mounts() (2022-07-06 13:16:07 -0400) ---------------------------------------------------------------- RCU pathwalk cleanups. Storing sampled ->d_seq of the next dentry in nameidata simplifies life considerably, especially if we delay fetching ->d_inode until step_into(). Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ---------------------------------------------------------------- Al Viro (10): __follow_mount_rcu(): verify that mount_lock remains unchanged namei: get rid of pointless unlikely(read_seqcount_retry(...)) follow_dotdot{,_rcu}(): change calling conventions switch try_to_unlazy_next() to __legitimize_mnt() namei: move clearing LOOKUP_RCU towards rcu_read_unlock() namei: stash the sampled ->d_seq into nameidata step_into(): lose inode argument follow_dotdot{,_rcu}(): don't bother with inode lookup_fast(): don't bother with inode step_into(): move fetching ->d_inode past handle_mounts() fs/mount.h | 1 - fs/namei.c | 191 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------------------- fs/namespace.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 86 insertions(+), 108 deletions(-)