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There are a number of places in the kernel that are accessing the inode->i_flctx field without smp_load_acquire. This is required to ensure that the caller doesn't see a partially-initialized structure. Add a new accessor function for it to make this clear and convert all of the relevant accesses in locks.c to use it. Also, convert locks_free_lock_context to use the helper as well instead of just doing a "bare" assignment. Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@kernel.org>
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