Re: Return failure from take_dentry_name_snapshot() (Was: [GIT PULL] overlayfs fixes for 7.3)

[Christian Brauner]

On Tue, Nov 03, 2026 at 08:32:17AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sun, 1 Nov 2026 at 09:16, Linus Torvalds
> <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > I'd like to see an ack from Al / Christian, but
> > I think I'll also rewrite that function to use guards.
> 
> I didn't get any acks, but I obviously did do the guard rewrite (and
> then some: I got a bit OCD about it).

VFS is just another acronym for OCD.

> I've committed the end result.

Thanks. Sorry, I didn't get to this earlier because of reasons... Well,
you know as you were on receiving end of it. In any case,

Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner (Amutable) <brauner@xxxxxxxxxx>

retroactively.