Re: [PATCH v3 8/9] vfs: open inside ->tmpfile()

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On Wed, Sep 21, 2022 at 05:27:18PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> 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.

Separate patchset for sure.



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