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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-18 17:39:57 +0000
committerDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-05-18 17:39:57 +0000
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Merging upstream version 6.7.7.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>
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@@ -1050,6 +1050,22 @@ kill_anon_super(), or kill_block_super() helpers.
**mandatory**
+Lock ordering has been changed so that s_umount ranks above open_mutex again.
+All places where s_umount was taken under open_mutex have been fixed up.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+export_operations ->encode_fh() no longer has a default implementation to
+encode FILEID_INO32_GEN* file handles.
+Filesystems that used the default implementation may use the generic helper
+generic_encode_ino32_fh() explicitly.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
If ->rename() update of .. on cross-directory move needs an exclusion with
directory modifications, do *not* lock the subdirectory in question in your
->rename() - it's done by the caller now [that item should've been added in