linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v5] mtd: Do not corrupt backing device of device node inode

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Date:	Tue, 18 May 2010 15:18:25 +0300
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
Cc:	Jan Kara <jack@...e.cz>, Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso@...nd.org>,
	Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1@...il.com>,
	linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	stable@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5] mtd: Do not corrupt backing device of device node 
	inode

On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 2:27 PM, David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:10 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
>> Now you're just reimplementing iget().
>>
>> Can we just use iget_locked() to get the appropriate inode (using the
>> mtd device number as the inode number)? Then we don't need to bother
>> storing it in mtd->inode at all, and we can iput() the last refcount on
>> it when the chardevice is closed -- we don't need it to stick around
>> until the MTD device is destroyed.
>
> ... and we don't _want_ it to stick around until the MTD device is
> destroyed, either. We may actually unload the mtdchar module and its
> inodes will be destroyed when we unregister the fs type; we don't want
> stale pointers to them hanging around to be reused if/when we reload the
> mtdchar module later.
>
> I've committed a version which keeps it entirely within the mtdchar
> code: http://git.infradead.org/mtd-2.6.git/commitdiff/cd874237

Looks ok. Thank you.

What about stable@?

>
> Thanks.
>
> --
> David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
> David.Woodhouse@...el.com                              Intel Corporation
>
>
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