[GIT PULL] overlayfs updates for 7.0

From: Amir Goldstein

Date: Tue Feb 17 2026 - 08:25:39 EST


Hi Linus,

Please pull overlayfs updates for 7.0 with a single functional
change.

This branch has been sitting in linux-next for a while and
it has gone through the usual overlayfs test routines.

The branch merges cleanly with master branch of the moment.

Thanks,
Amir.

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The following changes since commit fcb70a56f4d81450114034b2c61f48ce7444a0e2:

Merge tag 'vfs-6.19-rc8.fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs (2026-01-26 09:30:48 -0800)

are available in the Git repository at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs.git ovl-update-7.0

for you to fetch changes up to 869056dbbd636f8f256b695f39c102eb3ce2edd0:

ovl: relax requirement for uuid=off,index=on (2026-02-06 13:48:23 +0100)

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overlayfs updates for 7.0:

The semantics of uuid=off were relaxed to cater a use case of overlayfs
lower layers on btrfs clones, whose UUID are ephemeral and an upper layer
on a different filesystem.

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Amir Goldstein (1):
ovl: relax requirement for uuid=off,index=on

Documentation/filesystems/overlayfs.rst | 6 +++---
fs/overlayfs/namei.c | 21 +++++++++++++--------
fs/overlayfs/overlayfs.h | 2 ++
fs/overlayfs/super.c | 15 ++++++---------
4 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)