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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting | 11 |
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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting index 7b7b845c490a..321d74b73937 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting @@ -622,3 +622,14 @@ in your dentry operations instead. alloc_file_clone(file, flags, ops) does not affect any caller's references. On success you get a new struct file sharing the mount/dentry with the original, on failure - ERR_PTR(). +-- +[recommended] + ->lookup() instances doing an equivalent of + if (IS_ERR(inode)) + return ERR_CAST(inode); + return d_splice_alias(inode, dentry); + don't need to bother with the check - d_splice_alias() will do the + right thing when given ERR_PTR(...) as inode. Moreover, passing NULL + inode to d_splice_alias() will also do the right thing (equivalent of + d_add(dentry, NULL); return NULL;), so that kind of special cases + also doesn't need a separate treatment. |