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-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst6
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
index 4bb2627026ec..8f737e76935c 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/locking.rst
@@ -79,7 +79,8 @@ prototypes::
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *,
struct file *, unsigned open_flag,
umode_t create_mode);
- int (*tmpfile) (struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
+ int (*tmpfile) (struct user_namespace *, struct inode *,
+ struct file *, umode_t);
int (*fileattr_set)(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
struct dentry *dentry, struct fileattr *fa);
int (*fileattr_get)(struct dentry *dentry, struct fileattr *fa);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
index aee9aaf9f3df..af138241bb4b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting.rst
@@ -922,3 +922,13 @@ is provided - file_open_root_mnt(). In-tree users adjusted.
no_llseek is gone; don't set .llseek to that - just leave it NULL instead.
Checks for "does that file have llseek(2), or should it fail with ESPIPE"
should be done by looking at FMODE_LSEEK in file->f_mode.
+
+---
+
+**mandatory**
+
+Calling conventions for ->tmpfile() have changed. It now takes a struct
+file pointer instead of struct dentry pointer. d_tmpfile() is similarly
+changed to simplify callers. The passed file is in a non-open state and on
+success must be opened before returning (e.g. by calling
+finish_open_simple()).
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
index 6cd6953e175b..71b0b8114b18 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.rst
@@ -439,7 +439,7 @@ As of kernel 2.6.22, the following members are defined:
void (*update_time)(struct inode *, struct timespec *, int);
int (*atomic_open)(struct inode *, struct dentry *, struct file *,
unsigned open_flag, umode_t create_mode);
- int (*tmpfile) (struct user_namespace *, struct inode *, struct dentry *, umode_t);
+ int (*tmpfile) (struct user_namespace *, struct inode *, struct file *, umode_t);
int (*set_acl)(struct user_namespace *, struct inode *, struct posix_acl *, int);
int (*fileattr_set)(struct user_namespace *mnt_userns,
struct dentry *dentry, struct fileattr *fa);
@@ -589,7 +589,9 @@ otherwise noted.
``tmpfile``
called in the end of O_TMPFILE open(). Optional, equivalent to
atomically creating, opening and unlinking a file in given
- directory.
+ directory. On success needs to return with the file already
+ open; this can be done by calling finish_open_simple() right at
+ the end.
``fileattr_get``
called on ioctl(FS_IOC_GETFLAGS) and ioctl(FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR) to