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Re: [PATCH 3/7] libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename()

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On Tue, Aug 23, 2016 at 04:05:28PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This is trivial to do:
> 
>  - add flags argument to simple_rename()
>  - check if flags doesn't have any other than RENAME_NOREPLACE
>  - assign simple_rename() to .rename2 instead of .rename
> 
> Filesystems converted:
> 
> hugetlbfs, ramfs, bpf.
> 
> Debugfs uses simple_rename() to implement debugfs_rename(), which is for
> debugfs instances to rename files internally, not for userspace filesystem
> access.  For this case pass zero flags to simple_rename().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
> Cc: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

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[PATCH 3/7] libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename() Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com> - 2016-08-23 16:20 +0200
  Re: [PATCH 3/7] libfs: support RENAME_NOREPLACE in simple_rename() Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> - 2016-08-23 16:50 +0200

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