From: Kirill A. Shutemov Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 13:55:47 +0000 (+0300) Subject: mtd: mtdchar: Do not corrupt backing device of device node inode X-Git-Tag: v2.6.35-rc1~465^2~11 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=cd874237d97f24f601f16a140d20803b6a79202e;p=pandora-kernel.git mtd: mtdchar: Do not corrupt backing device of device node inode 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. [dwmw2: Refactor to keep it all entirely within mtdchar.c; use iget_locked()] Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov Acked-by: Jan Kara Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse --- Reading git-diff-tree failed