Merge patch series "ovl: allow O_PATH file descriptor when specifying layers"
Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says: Allow overlayfs to use O_PATH file descriptors when specifying layers. Userspace must currently use non-O_PATH file desriptors which is often pointless especially if the file descriptors have been created via open_tree(OPEN_TREE_CLONE). This has been a frequent request and came up again in [1]. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/fd8f6574-f737-4743-b220-79c815ee1554@mbaynton.com [1] * patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210-work-overlayfs-v2-0-ed2a949b674b@kernel.org: selftests/overlayfs: test specifying layers as O_PATH file descriptors fs: support O_PATH fds with FSCONFIG_SET_FD Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250210-work-overlayfs-v2-0-ed2a949b674b@kernel.org Signed-off-by:Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
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