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authorMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2020-05-21 00:54:36 +0200
committerMarcel Ziswiler <marcel.ziswiler@toradex.com>2020-05-21 00:54:36 +0200
commit135d39dcedcedd1f44ea0bba52f15ac5922c114f (patch)
tree12379fc8ef7489eaca1c7245f8bd6af74c619a8f /Documentation/filesystems/porting
parent187764bd111b27783b6d68ffb3b3dbb3a9bafd38 (diff)
parent1279cd128bba968ebe0a2df7f7ae38bae90250ef (diff)
Merge remote-tracking branch 'remotes/fslc/4.9-2.3.x-imx' into toradex_4.9-2.3.x-imx-next
Conflicts: sound/soc/codecs/sgtl5000.c sound/soc/fsl/imx-sgtl5000.c
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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.