Re: Overlayfs backport for kernel v4.9.y

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Dec 07, 2017 at 07:14:49PM +0200, Amir Goldstein wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> For whom it may concern, I have backported latest overlayfs
> features to stable kernel v4.9.y. The patches are available on

Hi Amir,

So what's the plan. Who is going to consume these patches. Will
these be merged somewhere?

Vivek

> overlayfs-4.9.y branch on my github [1]. I intend to update and
> test this branch with patches applied to upstream.
> 
> This work was verified with with xfstests master branch and
> with unionmount-testsuite master branch on my github [2].
> 
> DO NOT mistake this for code that can be compiled and loaded
> as a kernel module to kernel v4.9.y!
> The branch pulls in some minor infrastructure changes that
> were required for ease of backporting (mostly uuid_t helpers).
> Most of the remaining diff from v4.15-rc1 in overlayfs code
> is due to STATX vfs API change.
> 
> All backported patches have my S-O-B, but most of them
> don't have the upstream commit id in the commit message
> expect a few tree wide patches which I selectively picked
> their changes only to overlayfs (e.g. add include <cred.h>).
> 
> Please feel free to use this code, review my work and test it.
> 
> Thanks,
> Amir.
> 
> [1] https://github.com/amir73il/linux/commits/overlayfs-4.9.y
> [2] https://github.com/amir73il/unionmount-testsuite
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