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diff --git a/include/linux/exportfs.h b/include/linux/exportfs.h
index b03c0625fa6e..5ab958cdc50b 100644
--- a/include/linux/exportfs.h
+++ b/include/linux/exportfs.h
@@ -157,12 +157,13 @@ struct fid {
* @fh_to_dentry is given a &struct super_block (@sb) and a file handle
* fragment (@fh, @fh_len). It should return a &struct dentry which refers
* to the same file that the file handle fragment refers to. If it cannot,
- * it should return a %NULL pointer if the file was found but no acceptable
- * &dentries were available, or an %ERR_PTR error code indicating why it
- * couldn't be found (e.g. %ENOENT or %ENOMEM). Any suitable dentry can be
- * returned including, if necessary, a new dentry created with d_alloc_root.
- * The caller can then find any other extant dentries by following the
- * d_alias links.
+ * it should return a %NULL pointer if the file cannot be found, or an
+ * %ERR_PTR error code of %ENOMEM if a memory allocation failure occurred.
+ * Any other error code is treated like %NULL, and will cause an %ESTALE error
+ * for callers of exportfs_decode_fh().
+ * Any suitable dentry can be returned including, if necessary, a new dentry
+ * created with d_alloc_root. The caller can then find any other extant
+ * dentries by following the d_alias links.
*
* fh_to_parent:
* Same as @fh_to_dentry, except that it returns a pointer to the parent