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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 3bd1148d8bb6..e816d68a7ff3 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -673,3 +673,8 @@ in your dentry operations instead. 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. |