locks: add lock cancel command
Lock managers need to be able to cancel pending lock requests. In the case
where the exported filesystem manages its own locks, it's not sufficient just
to call posix_unblock_lock(); we need to let the filesystem know what's
happening too.
We do this by adding a new fcntl lock command: FL_CANCELLK. Some day this
might also be made available to userspace applications that could benefit from
an asynchronous locking api.
Signed-off-by: Marc Eshel <eshel@almaden.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: "J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
diff --git a/fs/locks.c b/fs/locks.c
index ee46584..242328e 100644
--- a/fs/locks.c
+++ b/fs/locks.c
@@ -2028,6 +2028,22 @@
EXPORT_SYMBOL(posix_unblock_lock);
+/**
+ * vfs_cancel_lock - file byte range unblock lock
+ * @filp: The file to apply the unblock to
+ * @fl: The lock to be unblocked
+ *
+ * Used by lock managers to cancel blocked requests
+ */
+int vfs_cancel_lock(struct file *filp, struct file_lock *fl)
+{
+ if (filp->f_op && filp->f_op->lock)
+ return filp->f_op->lock(filp, F_CANCELLK, fl);
+ return 0;
+}
+
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(vfs_cancel_lock);
+
static void lock_get_status(char* out, struct file_lock *fl, int id, char *pfx)
{
struct inode *inode = NULL;