linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] overlayfs updates for 6.8

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Message-Id: <20240110162900.174626-1-amir73il@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2024 18:29:00 +0200
From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@...il.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-unionfs@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] overlayfs updates for 6.8

Hi Linus,

Please pull overlayfs updates for 6.8.

This is a very small update with no bug fixes and no new features.

The larger update of overlayfs for this cycle, the re-factoring
of overlayfs code into generic backing_file helpers, was already
merged via a PR that I had sent Christian before the merge window.

This branch has been sitting in linux-next for a few weeks and
it has gone through the usual overlayfs test routines.

The branch merges cleanly with master branch of the moment.

Thanks,
Amir.

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The following changes since commit 98b1cc82c4affc16f5598d4fa14b1858671b2263:

  Linux 6.7-rc2 (2023-11-19 15:02:14 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

  git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs.git ovl-update-6.8

for you to fetch changes up to d17bb4620f90f81d8a8a45c3d025c679a1b5efcd:

  overlayfs.rst: fix ReST formatting (2023-12-15 12:31:36 +0200)

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overlayfs updates for 6.8

- Simplify/clarify some code

  No bug fixes here, just some changes following questions from Al
  about overlayfs code that could be a little more simple to follow.

- Overlayfs documentation style fixes

  Mainly fixes for ReST formatting suggested by documentation developers.

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Amir Goldstein (4):
      ovl: remove redundant ofs->indexdir member
      ovl: initialize ovl_copy_up_ctx.destname inside ovl_do_copy_up()
      overlayfs.rst: use consistent feature names
      overlayfs.rst: fix ReST formatting

 Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 104 +++++++++++++++++---------------
 fs/overlayfs/copy_up.c                  |   8 ++-
 fs/overlayfs/export.c                   |   4 +-
 fs/overlayfs/namei.c                    |   4 +-
 fs/overlayfs/ovl_entry.h                |   5 +-
 fs/overlayfs/params.c                   |   2 -
 fs/overlayfs/readdir.c                  |   2 +-
 fs/overlayfs/super.c                    |  19 +++---
 fs/overlayfs/util.c                     |   2 +-
 9 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-)