Re: xfs mknod regression

Bret Towe
2007-12-19T02:46:31Z

On Dec 18, 2007 9:36 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
>
> This was broken by my '[XFS] simplify xfs_create/mknod/symlink prototype',
> which assigned the re-shuffled ondisk dev_t back to the rdev variable in
> xfs_vn_mknod. Because of that i_rdev is set to the ondisk dev_t instead
> of the linux dev_t later down the function.
>
> Fortunately the fix for it is trivial: we can just remove the
> assignment because xfs_revalidate_inode has done the proper job before
> unlocking the inode.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

tested the patch on 2 machines and works fine for me

Thanks