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| author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-03-12 21:29:30 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2020-03-12 22:34:48 -0700 |
| commit | 1d343579312311aa9875b34d5a921f5e2ec69f0a (patch) | |
| tree | 64b636b5557d92f5266187f035dac34862db86d5 /Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | |
| parent | a8eceea84a3a3504e42f6495cf462027c5d19cb0 (diff) | |
| parent | 0d81a3f29c0afb18ba2b1275dcccf21e0dd4da38 (diff) | |
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Minor overlapping changes, nothing serious.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index f18506083ced..26c093969573 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -850,3 +850,11 @@ business doing so. d_alloc_pseudo() is internal-only; uses outside of alloc_file_pseudo() are very suspect (and won't work in modules). Such uses are very likely to be misspelled d_alloc_anon(). + +--- + +**mandatory** + +[should've been added in 2016] stale comment in finish_open() nonwithstanding, +failure exits in ->atomic_open() instances should *NOT* fput() the file, +no matter what. Everything is handled by the caller. |