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Commit 73fa58dc authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Pull file locking updates from Jeff Layton:
 "The main change here is to add the new locks_inode_context helper, and
  convert all of the places that dereference inode->i_flctx directly to
  use that instead.

  There is a new helper to indicate whether any locks are held on an
  inode. This is mostly for Ceph but may be usable elsewhere too.

  Andi Kleen requested that we print the PID when the LOCK_MAND warning
  fires, to help track down applications trying to use it.

  Finally, we added some new warnings to some of the file locking
  functions that fire when the ->fl_file and filp arguments differ. This
  helped us find some long-standing bugs in lockd. Patches for those are
  in Chuck Lever's tree and should be in his v6.2 PR. After that patch,
  people using NFSv2/v3 locking may see some warnings fire until those
  go in.

  Happy Holidays!"

* tag 'locks-v6.2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlayton/linux:
  Add process name and pid to locks warning
  nfsd: use locks_inode_context helper
  nfs: use locks_inode_context helper
  lockd: use locks_inode_context helper
  ksmbd: use locks_inode_context helper
  cifs: use locks_inode_context helper
  ceph: use locks_inode_context helper
  filelock: add a new locks_inode_context accessor function
  filelock: new helper: vfs_inode_has_locks
  filelock: WARN_ON_ONCE when ->fl_file and filp don't match
parents 7fc03505 f2f2494c
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