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From: Amir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2018 11:19:07 +0300
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 31/35] Revert "vfs: add d_real_inode() helper"
To: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 6:08 PM, Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> wrote:
> This reverts commit a118084432d642eeccb961c7c8cc61525a941fcb.
>
> No user of d_real_inode() remains, so it can be removed.
>

FYI, there is a new user in v4.17-rc1 added by commit
f0a2aa5a2a40 tracing/uprobe: Add support for overlayfs

Seems like this patch got merged without any CC to overlayfs
mailing list nor maintainer?

Not sure yet if overlayfs-rorw patches would allow reverting this
change.

Thanks,
Amir.