Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH v4] mtd: Do not corrupt backing device of device node inode | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Date | Thu, 06 May 2010 09:39:19 +0300 |
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On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:40 +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > We cannot modify file->f_mapping->backing_dev_info, because it will corrupt > backing device of device node inode, since file->f_mapping is equal to > inode->i_mapping (see __dentry_open() in fs/open.c). > > Let's introduce separate inode for MTD device with appropriate backing > device. > > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name> > --- > Changelog: > v3 -> v4: > - Use igrab() instead of __iget inside the inode_lock; > - Add stable@ to CC list. > v2 -> v3: > - Rebase to mtd-2.6.git. > v1 -> v2: > - Fix error handling based on comments by Jan Kara.
Pushed to l2-mtd-2.6.git / dunno
Also added Jan's ack which disappeared in v4
-- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy (Артём Битюцкий)
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