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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2020-03-31 15:15:47 +1000
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Merge v5.6 into drm-next
msm needed rc6, so I just went and merged release (msm has been in drm-next outside of this tree) Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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@@ -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.