vfs: improve comment describing fget_light()
Improve the description of fget_light(), which is currently incorrect about needing a prior refcnt (judging by the way it is actually used). Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <tonyb@cybernetics.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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@ -299,10 +299,19 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(fget);
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/*
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* Lightweight file lookup - no refcnt increment if fd table isn't shared.
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* You can use this only if it is guranteed that the current task already
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* holds a refcnt to that file. That check has to be done at fget() only
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* and a flag is returned to be passed to the corresponding fput_light().
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* There must not be a cloning between an fget_light/fput_light pair.
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*
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* You can use this instead of fget if you satisfy all of the following
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* conditions:
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* 1) You must call fput_light before exiting the syscall and returning control
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* to userspace (i.e. you cannot remember the returned struct file * after
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* returning to userspace).
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* 2) You must not call filp_close on the returned struct file * in between
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* calls to fget_light and fput_light.
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* 3) You must not clone the current task in between the calls to fget_light
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* and fput_light.
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*
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* The fput_needed flag returned by fget_light should be passed to the
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* corresponding fput_light.
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*/
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struct file *fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed)
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{
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