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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index bdd025ceb763..85ed3450099a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -596,3 +596,10 @@ in your dentry operations instead. [mandatory] ->rename() has an added flags argument. Any flags not handled by the filesystem should result in EINVAL being returned. +-- +[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. |