mtd: mtdchar: Do not corrupt backing device of device node inode
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
Mon, 17 May 2010 13:55:47 +0000 (16:55 +0300)
committerDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Tue, 18 May 2010 11:19:36 +0000 (12:19 +0100)
commitcd874237d97f24f601f16a140d20803b6a79202e
tree1d21ee13d45e7839a41c777e466f019cba2603d6
parent11c93605faecfe6f9a28a6f3d14989bad077055a
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 <kirill@shutemov.name>
Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
drivers/mtd/mtdchar.c