[PATCH 12/16] ovl: use vfs_{get,set}_fscaps() for copy-up

Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) sforshee at kernel.org
Thu Nov 30 16:43:40 UTC 2023


On Thu, Nov 30, 2023 at 08:23:28AM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 11:50 PM Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean)
> <sforshee at kernel.org> wrote:
> >
> > Using vfs_{get,set}xattr() for fscaps will be blocked in a future
> > commit, so convert ovl to use the new interfaces. Also remove the now
> > unused ovl_getxattr_value().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee at kernel.org>
> 
> You may add:
> 
> Reviewed-by: Amir Goldstein <amir73il at gmail.com>

Thanks!

> I am assuming that this work is destined to be merged via the vfs tree?
> Note that there is already a (non-conflicting) patch to copy_up.c on
> Christian's vfs.rw branch.

I'll leave that up to Christian. There are also other mnt_idmapping.h
changes on vfs.misc which could cause (probably minor) conflicts.



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