Merge tag 'v6.8-rc-part1-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6

Pull smb client fixes from Steve French:
 "Various smb client fixes, most related to better handling special file
  types:

   - Improve handling of special file types:
      - performance improvement (better compounding and better caching
        of readdir entries that are reparse points)
      - extend support for creating special files (sockets, fifos,
        block/char devices)
      - fix renaming and hardlinking of reparse points
      - extend support for creating symlinks with IO_REPARSE_TAG_SYMLINK

   - Multichannel logging improvement

   - Exception handling fix

   - Minor cleanups"

* tag 'v6.8-rc-part1-smb-client' of git://git.samba.org/sfrench/cifs-2.6:
  cifs: update internal module version number for cifs.ko
  cifs: remove unneeded return statement
  cifs: make cifs_chan_update_iface() a void function
  cifs: delete unnecessary NULL checks in cifs_chan_update_iface()
  cifs: get rid of dup length check in parse_reparse_point()
  smb: client: stop revalidating reparse points unnecessarily
  cifs: Pass unbyteswapped eof value into SMB2_set_eof()
  smb3: Improve exception handling in allocate_mr_list()
  cifs: fix in logging in cifs_chan_update_iface
  smb: client: handle special files and symlinks in SMB3 POSIX
  smb: client: cleanup smb2_query_reparse_point()
  smb: client: allow creating symlinks via reparse points
  smb: client: fix hardlinking of reparse points
  smb: client: fix renaming of reparse points
  smb: client: optimise reparse point querying
  smb: client: allow creating special files via reparse points
  smb: client: extend smb2_compound_op() to accept more commands
  smb: client: Fix minor whitespace errors and warnings