Unverified Commit a07052e0 authored by NeilBrown's avatar NeilBrown Committed by Christian Brauner
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ovl: narrow locking in ovl_create_upper()



Drop the directory lock immediately after the ovl_create_real() call and
take a separate lock later for cleanup in ovl_cleanup_unlocked() - if
needed.

This makes way for future changes where locks are taken on individual
dentries rather than the whole directory.

Reviewed-by: default avatarAmir Goldstein <amir73il@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarNeilBrown <neil@brown.name>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20250716004725.1206467-6-neil@brown.name


Signed-off-by: default avatarChristian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
parent a735bdf0
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