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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-03-21 09:35:44 +0100
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>2020-03-21 09:35:44 +0100
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Merge branch 'linus' into locking/kcsan, to pick up fixes
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -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.