@@ -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.
@@ -558,7 +558,6 @@ cifs_atomic_open(struct inode *inode, st
if (server->ops->close)
server->ops->close(xid, tcon, &fid);
cifs_del_pending_open(&open);
- fput(file);
rc = -ENOMEM;
}
@@ -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,