On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:14:49PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote: > Hi All, > > For whom it may concern, I have backported latest overlayfs > features to stable kernel v4.9.y. The patches are available on Hi Amir, So what's the plan. Who is going to consume these patches. Will these be merged somewhere? Vivek > overlayfs-4.9.y branch on my github [1]. I intend to update and > test this branch with patches applied to upstream. > > This work was verified with with xfstests master branch and > with unionmount-testsuite master branch on my github [2]. > > DO NOT mistake this for code that can be compiled and loaded > as a kernel module to kernel v4.9.y! > The branch pulls in some minor infrastructure changes that > were required for ease of backporting (mostly uuid_t helpers). > Most of the remaining diff from v4.15-rc1 in overlayfs code > is due to STATX vfs API change. > > All backported patches have my S-O-B, but most of them > don't have the upstream commit id in the commit message > expect a few tree wide patches which I selectively picked > their changes only to overlayfs (e.g. add include <cred.h>). > > Please feel free to use this code, review my work and test it. > > Thanks, > Amir. > > [1] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/overlayfs-4.9.y > [2] https://github.com/amir73il/unionmount-testsuite > -- > 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 -- 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
