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Once upon a time, predecessors of those used to do file lookup without bumping a refcount, provided that caller held rcu_read_lock() across the lookup and whatever it wanted to read from the struct file found. When struct file allocation switched to SLAB_TYPESAFE_BY_RCU, that stopped being feasible and these primitives started to bump the file refcount for lookup result, requiring the caller to call fput() afterwards. But that turned them pointless - e.g. rcu_read_lock(); file = lookup_fdget_rcu(fd); rcu_read_unlock(); is equivalent to file = fget_raw(fd); and all callers of lookup_fdget_rcu() are of that form. Similarly, task_lookup_fdget_rcu() calls can be replaced with calling fget_task(). task_lookup_next_fdget_rcu() doesn't have direct counterparts, but its callers would be happier if we replaced it with an analogue that deals with RCU internally. Reviewed-by: Christian Brauner <brauner@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.