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Commit 3afca265 authored by Steve French's avatar Steve French
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Clarify locking of cifs file and tcon structures and make more granular



Remove the global file_list_lock to simplify cifs/smb3 locking and
have spinlocks that more closely match the information they are
protecting.

Add new tcon->open_file_lock and file->file_info_lock spinlocks.
Locks continue to follow a heirachy,
	cifs_socket --> cifs_ses --> cifs_tcon --> cifs_file
where global tcp_ses_lock still protects socket and cifs_ses, while the
the newer locks protect the lower level structure's information
(tcon and cifs_file respectively).

CC: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteve French <steve.french@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarAurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarGermano Percossi <germano.percossi@citrix.com>
parent d171356f
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