Re: [PATCH v2] mtd: Do not corrupt backing device of device nodeinode

[Artem Bityutskiy]

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).
> > 
> > Let's introduce separate inode for MTD device with appropriate backing
> > device.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   The patch now looks correct to me. Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@xxxxxxx>
> 

Is this -stable material?

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Best Regards,
Artem Bityutskiy (ÐÑÑÑÐ ÐÐÑÑÑÐÐÐ)

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