This allows to change underlying mutex locking, without needing to change
the users of the lock. For example next patch modifies this interface to
use hashed mutexes in place of a single global kernfs_open_file_mutex.
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Imran Khan <imran.f.khan@oracle.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220615021059.862643-4-imran.f.khan@oracle.comSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>