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    Merge branch 'work.openat2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs · 6aee4bad
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull openat2 support from Al Viro:
     "This is the openat2() series from Aleksa Sarai.
    
      I'm afraid that the rest of namei stuff will have to wait - it got
      zero review the last time I'd posted #work.namei, and there had been a
      leak in the posted series I'd caught only last weekend. I was going to
      repost it on Monday, but the window opened and the odds of getting any
      review during that... Oh, well.
    
      Anyway, openat2 part should be ready; that _did_ get sane amount of
      review and public testing, so here it comes"
    
    From Aleksa's description of the series:
     "For a very long time, extending openat(2) with new features has been
      incredibly frustrating. This stems from the fact that openat(2) is
      possibly the most famous counter-example to the mantra "don't silently
      accept garbage from userspace" -- it doesn't check whether unknown
      flags are present[1].
    
      This means that (generally) the addition of new flags to ...
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