Miklos, I choose to fork a helper lookup_one_len_noperm(). Hope you find this a good choice. Amir. Amir Goldstein (3): vfs: factor out lookup_one_len_init() vfs: add helper lookup_one_len_noperm() ovl: constant d_ino across copy up fs/namei.c | 117 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 7 ++- fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 2 +- fs/overlayfs/readdir.c | 115 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- include/linux/namei.h | 1 + 5 files changed, 182 insertions(+), 60 deletions(-) -- 2.7.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-unionfs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html