On Wed, 18 Apr 2018 13:42:03 +0200 Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 18, 2018 at 10:19 AM, Amir Goldstein <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> This reverts commit a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb. > >> > >> No user of d_real_inode() remains, so it can be removed. > >> > > > > FYI, there is a new user in v4.17-rc1 added by commit > > f0a2aa5a2a40 tracing/uprobe: Add support for overlayfs > > > > Seems like this patch got merged without any CC to overlayfs > > mailing list nor maintainer? It appeared to be a small change with lots of reviewers. I didn't think it was something to notify the overlayfs folks with. But perhaps I was wrong. > > > > Not sure yet if overlayfs-rorw patches would allow reverting this > > change. > > Not trivial, because uprobe is looking at i_mapping to get a list of > current memory maps. We could set i_mapping at overlay inode > initialization time, but we definitely can't *change* i_mapping at > copy up. Which is bound to result in some weird inconsistencies. So > likely we'll need to keep d_real_inode() for the time being. I just received this patch: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected] Which removes this code. Can you review it and I'll take it. -- Steve
