Hi all, The overlayfs-next branch of the overlayfs repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs.git has been updated. The head of the overlayfs-next branch is commit: d1512c40431a ("ovl: Add documentation on nesting of overlayfs mounts") The updated head contains the following patch sets: - Rename and export some vfs helpers [1] (merged via vfs tree) - Overlayfs aio cleanups [2] (prep work for FUSE passthrough helpers) - Overlayfs lock ordering changes [3] (prep work for write-safe fsnotify permission events) - Add support for nesting overlayfs private xattrs (Alex) [4] The new code was tested using fstests including new tests written by Alex, which are available on his xfstests tree [5]. Miklos, Each of the overlayfs patch sets include changes that address your review comments from earlier revision, but niether have an explicit ACK from you on the final version (as posted in the links below). We still have plently of time until the merge window for you to review those patches, so I decided to expose them to linux-next testing. Please shout if you think that any of the patches need extra time for review or not acceptable for consideration to 6.7 in their current form. Thanks, Amir. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230908132900.2983519-1-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230912173653.3317828-1-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx/ [3] https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230816152334.924960-1-amir73il@xxxxxxxxx/ [4] https://lore.kernel.org/r/cover.1694512044.git.alexl@xxxxxxxxxx/ [5] https://github.com/alexlarsson/xfstests/commits/overlayfs-nesting ---------------------------------------------------------------- Alexander Larsson (5): ovl: Move xattr support to new xattrs.c file ovl: Add OVL_XATTR_TRUSTED/USER_PREFIX_LEN macros ovl: Support escaped overlay.* xattrs ovl: Add an alternative type of whiteout ovl: Add documentation on nesting of overlayfs mounts Amir Goldstein (12): ovl: fix failed copyup of fileattr on a symlink ovl: fix incorrect fdput() on aio completion fs: rename __mnt_{want,drop}_write*() helpers fs: export mnt_{get,put}_write_access() to modules ovl: protect copying of realinode attributes to ovl inode ovl: use simpler function to convert iocb to rw flags ovl: propagate IOCB_APPEND flag on writes to realfile ovl: move ovl_file_accessed() to aio completion ovl: split ovl_want_write() into two helpers ovl: reorder ovl_want_write() after ovl_inode_lock() ovl: do not open/llseek lower file with upper sb_writers held ovl: do not encode lower fh with upper sb_writers held