[v2.6.34-stable 176/213] ext4: always set i_op in ext4_mknod()

[Paul Gortmaker]

From: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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    This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
    http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
    If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit 6a08f447facb4f9e29fcc30fb68060bb5a0d21c2 upstream.

ext4_special_inode_operations have their own ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR
to mask those methods. And ext4_iget also always sets it, so there is
an inconsistency.

Signed-off-by: Bernd Schubert <bernd.schubert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/ext4/namei.c | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/ext4/namei.c b/fs/ext4/namei.c
index 41198b355a26..683c0f9d8a83 100644
--- a/fs/ext4/namei.c
+++ b/fs/ext4/namei.c
@@ -1825,9 +1825,7 @@ retry:
 	err = PTR_ERR(inode);
 	if (!IS_ERR(inode)) {
 		init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, rdev);
-#ifdef CONFIG_EXT4_FS_XATTR
 		inode->i_op = &ext4_special_inode_operations;
-#endif
 		err = ext4_add_nondir(handle, dentry, inode);
 	}
 	ext4_journal_stop(handle);
-- 
1.8.5.2

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