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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2020-03-21 09:35:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2020-03-21 09:35:44 +0100 |
| commit | df10846ff2ac3b0a7b295be2de2e9215877982f3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9e5ff5583aa1547afd3c577815af81c2f328e288 /Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | |
| parent | a4654e9bde4ecedb4921e6c8fe2088114bdff1b3 (diff) | |
| parent | 5ad0ec0b86525d0c5d3d250d3cfad7f183b00cfa (diff) | |
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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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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. |