[PATCH] fix up new filp allocators
Some new uses of get_empty_filp() have crept in; switched
to alloc_file() to make sure that pieces of initialization
won't be missing.
We really need to kill get_empty_filp().
[AV] fixed dentry leak on failure exit in anon_inode_getfd()
Cc: Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.sunysb.edu>
Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
Cc: "J Bruce Fields" <bfields@fieldses.org>
Acked-by: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 6d27bef..986ff4e 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@
/* Find an unused file structure and return a pointer to it.
* Returns NULL, if there are no more free file structures or
* we run out of memory.
+ *
+ * Be very careful using this. You are responsible for
+ * getting write access to any mount that you might assign
+ * to this filp, if it is opened for write. If this is not
+ * done, you will imbalance int the mount's writer count
+ * and a warning at __fput() time.
*/
struct file *get_empty_filp(void)
{