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

From: Amir Goldstein

Date: Tue Nov 03 2026 - 16:20:24 EST


On Tue, Nov 3, 2026 at 5:32 PM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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).
>
> I've committed the end result.

Thanks for cleaning it up.
Amir.