Merge 5.6-rc7 into char-misc-next

We need the char/misc driver fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/fs/file.c b/fs/file.c
index a364e1a9b7e8..c8a4e4c86e55 100644
--- a/fs/file.c
+++ b/fs/file.c
@@ -540,9 +540,14 @@ static int alloc_fd(unsigned start, unsigned flags)
 	return __alloc_fd(current->files, start, rlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE), flags);
 }
 
+int __get_unused_fd_flags(unsigned flags, unsigned long nofile)
+{
+	return __alloc_fd(current->files, 0, nofile, flags);
+}
+
 int get_unused_fd_flags(unsigned flags)
 {
-	return __alloc_fd(current->files, 0, rlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE), flags);
+	return __get_unused_fd_flags(flags, rlimit(RLIMIT_NOFILE));
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_unused_fd_flags);