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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst8
-rw-r--r--fs/cifs/dir.c1
-rw-r--r--fs/open.c3
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,