linux-ext4 - Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] Support negative dentries on case-insensitive ext4 and f2fs

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Date:   Mon, 21 Aug 2023 17:52:37 +0200
From:   Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
To:     Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...nel.org>
Cc:     Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@...e.de>, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        tytso@....edu, jaegeuk@...nel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 0/9] Support negative dentries on case-insensitive
 ext4 and f2fs

On Thu, Aug 17, 2023 at 10:06:58AM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 16, 2023 at 01:07:54AM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > This is v6 of the negative dentry on case-insensitive directories.
> > Thanks Eric for the review of the last iteration.  This version
> > drops the patch to expose the helper to check casefolding directories,
> > since it is not necessary in ecryptfs and it might be going away.  It
> > also addresses some documentation details, fix a build bot error and
> > simplifies the commit messages.  See the changelog in each patch for
> > more details.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > ---
> > 
> > Gabriel Krisman Bertazi (9):
> >   ecryptfs: Reject casefold directory inodes
> >   9p: Split ->weak_revalidate from ->revalidate
> >   fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
> >   fs: Add DCACHE_CASEFOLDED_NAME flag
> >   libfs: Validate negative dentries in case-insensitive directories
> >   libfs: Chain encryption checks after case-insensitive revalidation
> >   libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
> >   ext4: Enable negative dentries on case-insensitive lookup
> >   f2fs: Enable negative dentries on case-insensitive lookup
> > 
> 
> Looks good,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Eric Biggers <ebiggers@...gle.com>

Thanks! We're a bit too late for v6.6 with this given that this hasn't
even been in -next. So this will be up for v6.7.