Merge tag 'ovl-update-6.7' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/overlayfs/vfs
Pull overlayfs updates from Amir Goldstein: - Overlayfs aio cleanups and fixes Cleanups and minor fixes in preparation for factoring out of read/write passthrough code. - Overlayfs lock ordering changes Hold mnt_writers only throughout copy up instead of a long lived elevated refcount. - Add support for nesting overlayfs private xattrs There are cases where you want to use an overlayfs mount as a lowerdir for another overlayfs mount. For example, if the system rootfs is on overlayfs due to composefs, or to make it volatile (via tmpfs), then you cannot currently store a lowerdir on the rootfs, because the inner overlayfs will eat all the whiteouts and overlay xattrs. This means you can't e.g. store on the rootfs a prepared container image for use with overlayfs. This adds support for nesting of overlayfs mounts by escaping the problematic features and unescaping them wh...
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