Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/file_table.c b/fs/file_table.c
index 6d27befe2d48..986ff4ed0a7c 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)
 {