Merge branch 'work.misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs

[tomoyo/tomoyo-test1.git] / Documentation / filesystems / porting

diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index 2813a19..6b7a41c 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -428,8 +428,19 @@ release it yourself.
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 [mandatory]
        d_alloc_root() is gone, along with a lot of bugs caused by code
-misusing it.  Replacement: d_make_root(inode).  The difference is,
-d_make_root() drops the reference to inode if dentry allocation fails.  
+misusing it.  Replacement: d_make_root(inode).  On success d_make_root(inode)
+allocates and returns a new dentry instantiated with the passed in inode.
+On failure NULL is returned and the passed in inode is dropped so the reference
+to inode is consumed in all cases and failure handling need not do any cleanup
+for the inode.  If d_make_root(inode) is passed a NULL inode it returns NULL
+and also requires no further error handling. Typical usage is:
+
+       inode = foofs_new_inode(....);
+       s->s_root = d_make_root(inode);
+       if (!s->s_root)
+               /* Nothing needed for the inode cleanup */
+               return -ENOMEM;
+       ...
 
 --
 [mandatory]