On Wed, 21 Sept 2022 at 17:08, Christian Brauner <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 04:58:38PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > file_dentry() is basically a hack for overlayfs's "fake path" thing. > > It should only be used where strictly necessary. At one point it > > would be good to look again at cleaning this mess up. > > Yeah, that's what I was getting at. The file_dentry() helper would > ideally just be as simple as file_inode() and then we'd have > file_dentry_real() for the stacking filesystem scenarios. Sure. But that again belongs to a separate discussion, imo. Thanks, Miklos
