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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/cifs/dir.c | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/open.c | 3 |
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst index f18506083ced..26c093969573 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst @@ -850,3 +850,11 @@ business doing so. 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. diff --git a/fs/cifs/dir.c b/fs/cifs/dir.c index 0ef099442f20..36e7b2fd2190 100644 --- a/fs/cifs/dir.c +++ b/fs/cifs/dir.c @@ -555,7 +555,6 @@ cifs_atomic_open(struct inode *inode, struct dentry *direntry, if (server->ops->close) server->ops->close(xid, tcon, &fid); cifs_del_pending_open(&open); - fput(file); rc = -ENOMEM; } diff --git a/fs/open.c b/fs/open.c index 0788b3715731..b69d6eed67e6 100644 --- a/fs/open.c +++ b/fs/open.c @@ -860,9 +860,6 @@ cleanup_file: * the return value of d_splice_alias(), then the caller needs to perform dput() * on it after finish_open(). * - * On successful return @file is a fully instantiated open file. After this, if - * an error occurs in ->atomic_open(), it needs to clean up with fput(). - * * Returns zero on success or -errno if the open failed. */ int finish_open(struct file *file, struct dentry *dentry, |