Hi Al, Hopefully this addresses your concerns. I couldn't find a better name for lookup_hash(), after all it's just that. Please pull: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs.git overlayfs-linus --- Miklos Szeredi (4): vfs: add vfs_select_inode() helper vfs: rename: check backing inode being equal vfs: add lookup_hash() helper ovl: ignore permissions on underlying lookup --- fs/internal.h | 2 ++ fs/namei.c | 39 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------ fs/open.c | 23 ++++++++++++++--------- fs/overlayfs/super.c | 4 +--- include/linux/namei.h | 2 ++ 5 files changed, 52 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html