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: Steve French <steve.french@primarydata.com>
Signed-off-by: Pavel Shilovsky <pshilov@microsoft.com>
Reviewed-by: Aurelien Aptel <aaptel@suse.com>
Reviewed-by: Germano Percossi <germano.percossi@citrix.com>
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