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

Christian Brauner
2023-10-25T13:33:12Z

On Wed, 16 Aug 2023 01:07:54 -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> 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.
>
> [...]

Ok, let's put it into -next so it sees some testing.
So it's too late for v6.7. Seems we forgot about this series.
Sorry about that.

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Applied to the vfs.casefold branch of the vfs/vfs.git tree.
Patches in the vfs.casefold branch should appear in linux-next soon.

Please report any outstanding bugs that were missed during review in a
new review to the original patch series allowing us to drop it.

It's encouraged to provide Acked-bys and Reviewed-bys even though the
patch has now been applied. If possible patch trailers will be updated.

Note that commit hashes shown below are subject to change due to rebase,
trailer updates or similar. If in doubt, please check the listed branch.

tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git
branch: vfs.casefold

[1/9] ecryptfs: Reject casefold directory inodes
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/8512e7c7e665
[2/9] 9p: Split ->weak_revalidate from ->revalidate
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/17f4423cb24a
[3/9] fs: Expose name under lookup to d_revalidate hooks
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/24084e50e579
[4/9] fs: Add DCACHE_CASEFOLDED_NAME flag
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2daa2df800f8
[5/9] libfs: Validate negative dentries in case-insensitive directories
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/8d879ccaf0f7
[6/9] libfs: Chain encryption checks after case-insensitive revalidation
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/314e925d5a2c
[7/9] libfs: Merge encrypted_ci_dentry_ops and ci_dentry_ops
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/07f820b77c58
[8/9] ext4: Enable negative dentries on case-insensitive lookup
https://git.kernel.org/vfs/vfs/c/2562ec77f11e
[9/9] f2fs: Enable negative dentries on case-insensitive lookup