Christian, As promissed, here is the backing_file accessors cleanup that was dicussed on the overlayfs pr [1]. I have kept the ovl patch separate from the vfs patch, so that the vfs patch could be backported to stable kernels, because the ovl patch depends on master of today. Thanks, Amir. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-fsdevel/CAOQ4uxgFJCikAi4o4e9vzXTH=cUQGyvoo+cpdtfmBwJzutSCzw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Amir Goldstein (2): fs: constify file ptr in backing_file accessor helpers ovl: remove unneeded non-const conversion fs/backing-file.c | 4 ++-- fs/file_table.c | 13 ++++++++----- fs/internal.h | 1 + fs/overlayfs/file.c | 2 +- include/linux/fs.h | 6 +++--- 5 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) -- 2.34.1
