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

Christian Brauner
2023-08-21T15:52:44Z

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@google.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.