Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-18 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 2:43 PM, Al Viro wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:10:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: >> > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Stephen Rothwell >> > wrote: >> >> Hi Al, >> >> >> >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:56:37 +0

Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-18 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 01:43:40PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > It *is* broken. For now leave override_creds() as in your variant, but > we really want to deal with that crap eventually. > > > Okay, so ->open() is a file op, and file ops should use file->f_cred, > > but how are we going to enforce th

Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-18 Thread Al Viro
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:10:32PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Stephen Rothwell > > wrote: > >> Hi Al, > >> > >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:56:37 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > >>> > >>> ... and now it even build

Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-18 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 9:25 AM, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Stephen Rothwell > wrote: >> Hi Al, >> >> On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:56:37 +0100 Al Viro wrote: >>> >>> ... and now it even builds. Said that, I would really like to hear >>> something >>> from you - I can d

Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-18 Thread Miklos Szeredi
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 5:29 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Al, > > On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:56:37 +0100 Al Viro wrote: >> >> ... and now it even builds. Said that, I would really like to hear something >> from you - I can duplicate the entire overlayfs-next and merge it into >> my #for-next and

Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-17 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Al, On Wed, 18 Jul 2018 03:56:37 +0100 Al Viro wrote: > > ... and now it even builds. Said that, I would really like to hear something > from you - I can duplicate the entire overlayfs-next and merge it into > my #for-next and ask Steven to use that instead of your tree, but I very > much dis

Re: vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-17 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 04:53:37PM +0100, Al Viro wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 08:05:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:43 AM Al Viro wrote: > > > > > > A question regarding the customs in such situations - are previous > > > Reviewed-by/Acked-by normally kept acro

vfs / overlayfs conflict resolution for linux-next

2018-07-12 Thread Al Viro
On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 08:05:26AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Thu, Jul 12, 2018 at 5:43 AM Al Viro wrote: > > > > A question regarding the customs in such situations - are previous > > Reviewed-by/Acked-by normally kept across rebases like that? > > Yeah, unless there were big changes, kee