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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-04-03 14:33:42 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2008-04-03 14:33:42 -0700
commit3bb5da3837cc1aa17736b05139c9a22c3794851a (patch)
treec92d5684a866542b1cb20641607ac1643ce03a47 /fs/file_table.c
parent7feb49c82a74bc7c091b8ab2a3f96baa33d08ece (diff)
parent9597362d354f8655ece324b01d0c640a0e99c077 (diff)
Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
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diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 6d27befe2d4..986ff4ed0a7 100644
--- a/fs/file_table.c
+++ b/fs/file_table.c
@@ -83,6 +83,12 @@ int proc_nr_files(ctl_table *table, int write, struct file *filp,
/* 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)
{