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authorOtavio Salvador <otavio@ossystems.com.br>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2020-05-20 08:43:03 -0300
commit1279cd128bba968ebe0a2df7f7ae38bae90250ef (patch)
treedf6b1a190760f51465122ca4c13492d5ac5984c6 /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parent0a8ab17689e628c84a666195bfc6ab85d11cf057 (diff)
parent2ae782ca839e0ee07de37122ddea362adff2e975 (diff)
Merge pull request #76 from toradex/4.9-2.3.x-imx
4.9 2.3.x imx
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@@ -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.