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author | Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> | 2020-03-30 14:31:37 +0300 |
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committer | Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de> | 2020-03-30 14:31:37 +0300 |
commit | ba15533275dd70238b523417d222d43fb40dac9d (patch) | |
tree | e97f6b804994d20ce476dc5a123fc074799e9584 /Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | |
parent | f75410a406e934e4cf31e0a7ec151799a6bf38cf (diff) | |
parent | 7111951b8d4973bda27ff663f2cf18b663d15b48 (diff) | |
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Merge tag 'v5.6' into mips-next
Linux 5.6
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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. |