[PATCH v5] mtd: Do not corrupt backing device of device node inode

[David Woodhouse]

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

Thanks.

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David Woodhouse                            Open Source Technology Centre
David.Woodhouse at intel.com                              Intel Corporation