This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
cifs: Move some extern decls from .c files to .h
to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
cifs-move-some-extern-decls-from-.c-files-to-.h.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit eee592d5b525e0f16fca02820a17e5df04d5e8c6
Author: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed May 1 01:39:48 2024 -0500
cifs: Move some extern decls from .c files to .h
[ Upstream commit 5b142b37c70b1fa6936fa2d0babb0b8c16767d3a ]
Move the following:
extern mempool_t *cifs_sm_req_poolp;
extern mempool_t *cifs_req_poolp;
extern mempool_t *cifs_mid_poolp;
extern bool disable_legacy_dialects;
from various .c files to cifsglob.h.
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
cc: linux-cifs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c b/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
index 30bf754c9fc93..539ac9774de1b 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsfs.c
@@ -150,10 +150,6 @@ MODULE_PARM_DESC(disable_legacy_dialects, "To improve security it may be "
"vers=1.0 (CIFS/SMB1) and vers=2.0 are weaker"
" and less secure. Default: n/N/0");
-extern mempool_t *cifs_sm_req_poolp;
-extern mempool_t *cifs_req_poolp;
-extern mempool_t *cifs_mid_poolp;
-
struct workqueue_struct *cifsiod_wq;
struct workqueue_struct *decrypt_wq;
struct workqueue_struct *fileinfo_put_wq;
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
index 70a12584375de..9597887280ff3 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
+++ b/fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h
@@ -2112,6 +2112,8 @@ extern struct workqueue_struct *deferredclose_wq;
extern struct workqueue_struct *serverclose_wq;
extern __u32 cifs_lock_secret;
+extern mempool_t *cifs_sm_req_poolp;
+extern mempool_t *cifs_req_poolp;
extern mempool_t *cifs_mid_poolp;
/* Operations for different SMB versions */
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/connect.c b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
index 5acfd2057ca04..4e35970681bf0 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/connect.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/connect.c
@@ -52,9 +52,6 @@
#include "fs_context.h"
#include "cifs_swn.h"
-extern mempool_t *cifs_req_poolp;
-extern bool disable_legacy_dialects;
-
/* FIXME: should these be tunable? */
#define TLINK_ERROR_EXPIRE (1 * HZ)
#define TLINK_IDLE_EXPIRE (600 * HZ)
diff --git a/fs/smb/client/misc.c b/fs/smb/client/misc.c
index 669d27b4d414a..ad44f8d66b377 100644
--- a/fs/smb/client/misc.c
+++ b/fs/smb/client/misc.c
@@ -27,9 +27,6 @@
#include "fs_context.h"
#include "cached_dir.h"
-extern mempool_t *cifs_sm_req_poolp;
-extern mempool_t *cifs_req_poolp;
-
/* The xid serves as a useful identifier for each incoming vfs request,
in a similar way to the mid which is useful to track each sent smb,
and CurrentXid can also provide a running counter (although it
