[PATCH RFC 05/20] fs: add vfs_setpos_cookie()

[Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>]

Add a new helper and make vfs_setpos() call it. We will use it in
follow-up patches.

Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>
---
 fs/read_write.c | 31 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/read_write.c b/fs/read_write.c
index 90e283b31ca1..66ff52860496 100644
--- a/fs/read_write.c
+++ b/fs/read_write.c
@@ -40,18 +40,20 @@ static inline bool unsigned_offsets(struct file *file)
 }
 
 /**
- * vfs_setpos - update the file offset for lseek
+ * vfs_setpos_cookie - update the file offset for lseek and reset cookie
  * @file:	file structure in question
  * @offset:	file offset to seek to
  * @maxsize:	maximum file size
+ * @cookie:	cookie to reset
  *
- * This is a low-level filesystem helper for updating the file offset to
- * the value specified by @offset if the given offset is valid and it is
- * not equal to the current file offset.
+ * Update the file offset to the value specified by @offset if the given
+ * offset is valid and it is not equal to the current file offset and
+ * reset the specified cookie to indicate that a seek happened.
  *
  * Return the specified offset on success and -EINVAL on invalid offset.
  */
-loff_t vfs_setpos(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t maxsize)
+static loff_t vfs_setpos_cookie(struct file *file, loff_t offset,
+				loff_t maxsize, u64 *cookie)
 {
 	if (offset < 0 && !unsigned_offsets(file))
 		return -EINVAL;
@@ -60,10 +62,27 @@ loff_t vfs_setpos(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t maxsize)
 
 	if (offset != file->f_pos) {
 		file->f_pos = offset;
-		file->f_version = 0;
+		*cookie = 0;
 	}
 	return offset;
 }
+
+/**
+ * vfs_setpos - update the file offset for lseek
+ * @file:	file structure in question
+ * @offset:	file offset to seek to
+ * @maxsize:	maximum file size
+ *
+ * This is a low-level filesystem helper for updating the file offset to
+ * the value specified by @offset if the given offset is valid and it is
+ * not equal to the current file offset.
+ *
+ * Return the specified offset on success and -EINVAL on invalid offset.
+ */
+loff_t vfs_setpos(struct file *file, loff_t offset, loff_t maxsize)
+{
+	return vfs_setpos_cookie(file, offset, maxsize, &file->f_version);
+}
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(vfs_setpos);
 
 /**

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