Merge patch series "file: remove f_version"

Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> says:

The f_version member in struct file isn't particularly well-defined. It
is mainly used as a cookie to detect concurrent seeks when iterating
directories. But it is also abused by some subsystems for completely
unrelated things.

It is mostly a directory specific thing that doesn't really need to live
in struct file and with its wonky semantics it really lacks a specific
function.

For pipes, f_version is (ab)used to defer poll notifications until a
write has happened. And struct pipe_inode_info is used by multiple
struct files in their ->private_data so there's no chance of pushing
that down into file->private_data without introducing another pointer
indirection.

But this should be a solvable problem. Only regular files with
FMODE_ATOMIC_POS and directories require f_pos_lock. Pipes and other
files don't. So this adds a union into struct file encompassing
f_pos_lock and a pipe specific f_pipe member that pipes can use. This
union of course can be extended to other file types and is similar to
what we do in struct inode already.

* patches from https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240830-vfs-file-f_version-v1-0-6d3e4816aa7b@kernel.org:
  fs: remove f_version
  pipe: use f_pipe
  fs: add f_pipe
  ubifs: store cookie in private data
  ufs: store cookie in private data
  udf: store cookie in private data
  proc: store cookie in private data
  ocfs2: store cookie in private data
  input: remove f_version abuse
  ext4: store cookie in private data
  ext2: store cookie in private data
  affs: store cookie in private data
  fs: add generic_llseek_cookie()
  fs: use must_set_pos()
  fs: add must_set_pos()
  fs: add vfs_setpos_cookie()
  s390: remove unused f_version
  ceph: remove unused f_version
  adi: remove unused f_version
  file: remove pointless comment

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240830-vfs-file-f_version-v1-0-6d3e4816aa7b@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org>

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