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From: Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: Do not corrupt backing device of device node
 inode
Date: Tue, 04 May 2010 17:19:17 +0300
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Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@slind.org>,
	linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
To: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
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On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 13:19 +0200, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Tue 04-05-10 00:32:48, 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).
> >=20
> > Let's introduce separate inode for MTD device with appropriate back=
ing
> > device.
> >=20
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@shutemov.name>
>   The patch now looks correct to me. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz=
>
>=20

Is this -stable material?

--=20
Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (=D0=90=D1=80=D1=82=D1=91=D0=BC =D0=91=D0=B8=D1=82=D1=8E=
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