[Gluster-Maintainers] Request to approve backport of #18429 to release 3.10 and 3.12

[Soumya Koduri]

Hi Shyam/Raghavendra/Jiffin,

#18429 [1] addresses a missing functionality in gfapi (since almost 
Day1) which is to be able to set lk_owner. This fix is now needed for 
integration of recent/upcoming upstream NFS-Ganesha releases with 
Gluster without which locking functionality over NFS shall be broken.

Since 3.13 shall be STM release, to be able to continue supporting 
existing stable gluster releases + NFS-Ganesha, I request you to approve 
backport of that fix to 3.10 and 3.12 releases. The fix is not intrusive 
and doesn't affect any other access protocol.

Once it gets approved, as suggested by Niels, I shall first change the 
symbol version of that new routine to 3.10 in master branch and then 
backport the changes to stable releases.

Thanks,
Soumya


[1] https://review.gluster.org/#/c/18429