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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-25 18:57:47 +0300 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2008-03-25 18:57:47 +0300 |
| commit | 7ed7fe5e82c9fc8473974fbd7389d169b8f17c77 (patch) | |
| tree | ff6ff57c88c887133f1585473e7d74981d0dc88c /fs/file_table.c | |
| parent | a4083c9271e0a697278e089f2c0b9a95363ada0a (diff) | |
| parent | a02f76c34d7d6d30b63ac64a8b34dea68593e8da (diff) | |
| download | linux-7ed7fe5e82c9fc8473974fbd7389d169b8f17c77.tar.xz | |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs-2.6:
[PATCH] get stack footprint of pathname resolution back to relative sanity
[PATCH] double iput() on failure exit in hugetlb
[PATCH] double dput() on failure exit in tiny-shmem
[PATCH] fix up new filp allocators
[PATCH] check for null vfsmount in dentry_open()
[PATCH] reiserfs: eliminate private use of struct file in xattr
[PATCH] sanitize hppfs
hppfs pass vfsmount to dentry_open()
[PATCH] restore export of do_kern_mount()
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/file_table.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/file_table.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c index 6d27befe2d48..986ff4ed0a7c 100644 --- a/fs/file_table.c +++ b/fs/file_table.c @@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp, /* Find an unused file structure and return a pointer to it. * Returns NULL, if there are no more free file structures or * we run out of memory. + * + * Be very careful using this. You are responsible for + * getting write access to any mount that you might assign + * to this filp, if it is opened for write. If this is not + * done, you will imbalance int the mount's writer count + * and a warning at __fput() time. */ struct file *get_empty_filp(void) { |