Merge patch series "Further centralising of directory locking for name ops."

NeilBrown <neilb@ownmail.net> says:

I am working towards changing the locking rules for name-operations: locking
the name rather than the whole directory.

The current part of this process is centralising all the locking so that
it can be changed in one place.

Recently "start_creating", "start_removing", "start_renaming" and related
interaces were added which combine the locking and the lookup.  At that time
many callers were changed to use the new interfaces.  However there are still
an assortment of places out side of fs/namei.c where the directory is locked
explictly, whether with inode_lock() or lock_rename() or similar.  These were
missed in the first pass for an assortment of uninteresting reasons.

This series addresses the remaining places where explicit locking is
used, and changes them to use the new interfaces, or otherwise removes
the explicit locking.

The biggest changes are in overlayfs.  The other changes are quite
simple, though maybe the cachefiles changes is the least simple of those.

I'm running the --overlay tests in xfstests and nothing has popped yet.
I'll continue with this and run some NFS tests too.

* patches from https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-1-neilb@ownmail.net:
  VFS: unexport lock_rename(), lock_rename_child(), unlock_rename()
  ovl: remove ovl_lock_rename_workdir()
  ovl: use is_subdir() for testing if one thing is a subdir of another
  ovl: change ovl_create_real() to get a new lock when re-opening created file.
  ovl: pass name buffer to ovl_start_creating_temp()
  cachefiles: change cachefiles_bury_object to use start_renaming_dentry()
  ovl: Simplify ovl_lookup_real_one()
  VFS: make lookup_one_qstr_excl() static.
  nfsd: switch purge_old() to use start_removing_noperm()
  selinux: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  Apparmor: Use simple_start_creating() / simple_done_creating()
  libfs: change simple_done_creating() to use end_creating()
  VFS: move the start_dirop() kerndoc comment to before start_dirop()
  fs/proc: Don't lock root inode when creating "self" and "thread-self"
  VFS: note error returns in documentation for various lookup functions

Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260224222542.3458677-1-neilb@ownmail.net
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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