Now that most filesystems where we expect to need lease support have
their ->setlease() operations explicitly set, change kernel_setlease()
to return -EINVAL when the setlease is a NULL pointer.
Also update the Documentation/ with info about this change.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260108-setlease-6-20-v1-23-ea4dec9b67fa@kernel.org
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Acked-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Reviewed-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
kill_litter_super() is gone; convert to DCACHE_PERSISTENT use (as all
in-tree filesystems have done).
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+The ->setlease() file_operation must now be explicitly set in order to provide
+support for leases. When set to NULL, the kernel will now return -EINVAL to
+attempts to set a lease. Filesystems that wish to use the kernel-internal lease
+implementation should set it to generic_setlease().
method is used by the splice(2) system call
``setlease``
- called by the VFS to set or release a file lock lease. setlease
- implementations should call generic_setlease to record or remove
- the lease in the inode after setting it.
+ called by the VFS to set or release a file lock lease. Local
+ filesystems that wish to use the kernel-internal lease implementation
+ should set this to generic_setlease(). Other setlease implementations
+ should call generic_setlease() to record or remove the lease in the inode
+ after setting it. When set to NULL, attempts to set or remove a lease will
+ return -EINVAL.
``fallocate``
called by the VFS to preallocate blocks or punch a hole.
setlease_notifier(arg, *lease);
if (filp->f_op->setlease)
return filp->f_op->setlease(filp, arg, lease, priv);
- else
- return generic_setlease(filp, arg, lease, priv);
+ return -EINVAL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kernel_setlease);