Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fixes for dentry lockdep tracking on stacking filesystems

From: Amir Goldstein

Date: Fri Oct 16 2026 - 02:58:17 EST


On Sat, Oct 3, 2026 at 12:41 AM NeilBrown <neilb@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The recent addition of lockdep tracking for in-lookup dentries didn't
> take into account the needs of stacking filesystems. For this we need
> different lock keys for different filesystems in the stack.
>
> Thanks,
> NeilBrown
>
>
> [PATCH 1/3] VFS: per-fs-type lockdep key for dentry in-lookup locking
> [PATCH 2/3] VFS: rename lookup_map to dep_map
> [PATCH 3/3] ovl: provide private lockdep class for dentry->dep_map

Christian,

These are fixed to the series you have staged on vfs-7.4.lookup

Best append them to this branch per PR?

I have added my RVB for the ovl patch.

Thanks,
Amir.