vfs: improve comment describing fget_light()

Improve the description of fget_light(), which is currently incorrect
about needing a prior refcnt (judging by the way it is actually used).

Signed-off-by: Tony Battersby <[email protected]>
Cc: Al Viro <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

fs/file_table.c

@@ -298,11 +298,20 @@ struct file *fget(unsigned int fd)
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(fget);
 
 /*
- * Lightweight file lookup - no refcnt increment if fd table isn't shared. 
- * You can use this only if it is guranteed that the current task already 
- * holds a refcnt to that file. That check has to be done at fget() only
- * and a flag is returned to be passed to the corresponding fput_light().
- * There must not be a cloning between an fget_light/fput_light pair.
+ * Lightweight file lookup - no refcnt increment if fd table isn't shared.
+ *
+ * You can use this instead of fget if you satisfy all of the following
+ * conditions:
+ * 1) You must call fput_light before exiting the syscall and returning control
+ *    to userspace (i.e. you cannot remember the returned struct file * after
+ *    returning to userspace).
+ * 2) You must not call filp_close on the returned struct file * in between
+ *    calls to fget_light and fput_light.
+ * 3) You must not clone the current task in between the calls to fget_light
+ *    and fput_light.
+ *
+ * The fput_needed flag returned by fget_light should be passed to the
+ * corresponding fput_light.
  */
 struct file *fget_light(unsigned int fd, int *fput_needed)
 {