Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

Pull vfs updates from Al Viro:
 "overlayfs merge + leak fix for d_splice_alias() failure exits"

* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs:
  overlayfs: embed middle into overlay_readdir_data
  overlayfs: embed root into overlay_readdir_data
  overlayfs: make ovl_cache_entry->name an array instead of pointer
  overlayfs: don't hold ->i_mutex over opening the real directory
  fix inode leaks on d_splice_alias() failure exits
  fs: limit filesystem stacking depth
  overlay: overlay filesystem documentation
  overlayfs: implement show_options
  overlayfs: add statfs support
  overlay filesystem
  shmem: support RENAME_WHITEOUT
  ext4: support RENAME_WHITEOUT
  vfs: add RENAME_WHITEOUT
  vfs: add whiteout support
  vfs: export check_sticky()
  vfs: introduce clone_private_mount()
  vfs: export __inode_permission() to modules
  vfs: export do_splice_direct() to modules
  vfs: add i_op->dentry_open()

1 files changed, 27 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/namespace.c b/fs/namespace.c
index fbba8b1..5b66b2b 100644
--- a/fs/namespace.c
+++ b/fs/namespace.c
@@ -1686,6 +1686,33 @@ void drop_collected_mounts(struct vfsmount *mnt)
 	namespace_unlock();
 }
 
+/**
+ * clone_private_mount - create a private clone of a path
+ *
+ * This creates a new vfsmount, which will be the clone of @path.  The new will
+ * not be attached anywhere in the namespace and will be private (i.e. changes
+ * to the originating mount won't be propagated into this).
+ *
+ * Release with mntput().
+ */
+struct vfsmount *clone_private_mount(struct path *path)
+{
+	struct mount *old_mnt = real_mount(path->mnt);
+	struct mount *new_mnt;
+
+	if (IS_MNT_UNBINDABLE(old_mnt))
+		return ERR_PTR(-EINVAL);
+
+	down_read(&namespace_sem);
+	new_mnt = clone_mnt(old_mnt, path->dentry, CL_PRIVATE);
+	up_read(&namespace_sem);
+	if (IS_ERR(new_mnt))
+		return ERR_CAST(new_mnt);
+
+	return &new_mnt->mnt;
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(clone_private_mount);
+
 int iterate_mounts(int (*f)(struct vfsmount *, void *), void *arg,
 		   struct vfsmount *root)
 {