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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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Tony Battersby 2010-08-10 18:01:29 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 5a19ae4bb0
commit 58939473ba
1 changed files with 14 additions and 5 deletions
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fs/file_table.c
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@ -298,11 +298,20 @@ struct file *fget(unsigned int fd)
EXPORT_SYMBOL(fget);
/*
* Lightweight file lookup - no refcnt increment if fd table isn't shared.
* You can use this only if it is guranteed that the current task already
* holds a refcnt to that file. That check has to be done at fget() only
* and a flag is returned to be passed to the corresponding fput_light().
* There must not be a cloning between an fget_light/fput_light pair.
* Lightweight file lookup - no refcnt increment if fd table isn't shared.
*
* You can use this instead of fget if you satisfy all of the following
* conditions:
* 1) You must call fput_light before exiting the syscall and returning control
* to userspace (i.e. you cannot remember the returned struct file * after
* returning to userspace).
* 2) You must not call filp_close on the returned struct file * in between
* calls to fget_light and fput_light.
* 3) You must not clone the current task in between the calls to fget_light
* and fput_light.
*
* The fput_needed flag returned by fget_light should be passed to the
* corresponding fput_light.
*/
struct file *fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed)
{