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    Merge branch 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs · 139351f1
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull overlayfs updates from Miklos Szeredi:
     "This work from Amir adds NFS export capability to overlayfs. NFS
      exporting an overlay filesystem is a challange because we want to keep
      track of any copy-up of a file or directory between encoding the file
      handle and decoding it.
    
      This is achieved by indexing copied up objects by lower layer file
      handle. The index is already used for hard links, this patchset
      extends the use to NFS file handle decoding"
    
    * 'overlayfs-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/vfs: (51 commits)
      ovl: check ERR_PTR() return value from ovl_encode_fh()
      ovl: fix regression in fsnotify of overlay merge dir
      ovl: wire up NFS export operations
      ovl: lookup indexed ancestor of lower dir
      ovl: lookup connected ancestor of dir in inode cache
      ovl: hash non-indexed dir by upper inode for NFS export
      ovl: decode pure lower dir file handles
      ovl: decode indexed dir file handles
      ovl: decode lower file handles of unlinked but open files
      ovl: decode indexed non-dir file handles
      ovl: decode lower non-dir file handles
      ovl: encode lower file handles
      ovl: copy up before encoding non-connectable dir file handle
      ovl: encode non-indexed upper file handles
      ovl: decode connected upper dir file handles
      ovl: decode pure upper file handles
      ovl: encode pure upper file handles
      ovl: document NFS export
      vfs: factor out helpers d_instantiate_anon() and d_alloc_anon()
      ovl: store 'has_upper' and 'opaque' as bit flags
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