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    Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs · 7f851936
    Linus Torvalds authored
    Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein:
    
     - Overlayfs aio cleanups and fixes
    
       Cleanups and minor fixes in preparation for factoring out of
       read/write passthrough code.
    
     - Overlayfs lock ordering changes
    
       Hold mnt_writers only throughout copy up instead of a long lived
       elevated refcount.
    
     - Add support for nesting overlayfs private xattrs
    
       There are cases where you want to use an overlayfs mount as a
       lowerdir for another overlayfs mount. For example, if the system
       rootfs is on overlayfs due to composefs, or to make it volatile (via
       tmpfs), then you cannot currently store a lowerdir on the rootfs,
       because the inner overlayfs will eat all the whiteouts and overlay
       xattrs. This means you can't e.g. store on the rootfs a prepared
       container image for use with overlayfs.
    
       This adds support for nesting of overlayfs mounts by escaping the
       problematic features and unescaping them when exposing to the
       overlayfs user.
    
     - Add new mount options for appending lowerdirs
    
    * tag 'ovl-update-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs:
      ovl: add support for appending lowerdirs one by one
      ovl: refactor layer parsing helpers
      ovl: store and show the user provided lowerdir mount option
      ovl: remove unused code in lowerdir param parsing
      ovl: Add documentation on nesting of overlayfs mounts
      ovl: Add an alternative type of whiteout
      ovl: Support escaped overlay.* xattrs
      ovl: Add OVL_XATTR_TRUSTED/USER_PREFIX_LEN macros
      ovl: Move xattr support to new xattrs.c file
      ovl: do not encode lower fh with upper sb_writers held
      ovl: do not open/llseek lower file with upper sb_writers held
      ovl: reorder ovl_want_write() after ovl_inode_lock()
      ovl: split ovl_want_write() into two helpers
      ovl: add helper ovl_file_modified()
      ovl: protect copying of realinode attributes to ovl inode
      ovl: punt write aio completion to workqueue
      ovl: propagate IOCB_APPEND flag on writes to realfile
      ovl: use simpler function to convert iocb to rw flags
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