linux-kernel - Re: xfs mknod regression

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Date:	Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:46:30 -0800
From:	"Bret Towe" <magnade@...il.com>
To:	"Christoph Hellwig" <hch@...radead.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, xfs@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: xfs mknod regression

On Dec 18, 2007 9:36 AM, Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.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@....de>

tested the patch on 2 machines and works fine for me

Thanks
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