Re: Anonymous inode cleanup?

[Al Viro]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 12:28:38PM -0800, Rajat Jain wrote:

> > _If_ you are returning them via a sucky API, the right sequence is
> >         reserve the descriptor(s)
> >         set the file(s) up
> >         fill whatever structure you'll be using to report descriptors to
> > userland and copy it to userland memory
> 
> If this step fails, what is the cleanup needed for "set the files up"
> anon_inode_getfile() step? is it fput()?

Yes.
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