On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 03:45:59PM -0400, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
> Introduce a dentry revalidation helper to be used by case-insensitive
> filesystems to check if it is safe to reuse a negative dentry.
> 
> A negative dentry is safe to be reused on a case-insensitive lookup if
> it was created during a case-insensitive lookup and this is not a lookup
> that will instantiate a dentry. If this is a creation lookup, we also
> need to make sure the name matches sensitively the name under lookup in
> order to assure the name preserving semantics.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <kris...@collabora.com>

Reviewed-by: Theodore Ts'o <ty...@mit.edu>


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