Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758894AbXLSAiS (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:38:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754463AbXLSAiK (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:38:10 -0500 Received: from relay1.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:41535 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754912AbXLSAiJ (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Dec 2007 19:38:09 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 11:37:45 +1100 From: David Chinner To: Christoph Hellwig Cc: Bret Towe , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, xfs@oss.sgi.com, rjw@sisk.pl Subject: Re: xfs mknod regression Message-ID: <20071219003745.GR4396912@sgi.com> References: <20071218173642.GA7338@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20071218173642.GA7338@infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1636 Lines: 47 On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:36:42PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig 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 > > Index: linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c > =================================================================== > --- linux-2.6-xfs.orig/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c 2007-12-18 18:23:32.000000000 +0100 > +++ linux-2.6-xfs/fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_iops.c 2007-12-18 18:23:43.000000000 +0100 > @@ -345,9 +345,7 @@ xfs_vn_mknod( > ASSERT(vp); > ip = vn_to_inode(vp); > > - if (S_ISCHR(mode) || S_ISBLK(mode)) > - ip->i_rdev = rdev; > - else if (S_ISDIR(mode)) > + if (S_ISDIR(mode)) > xfs_validate_fields(ip); > d_instantiate(dentry, ip); > xfs_validate_fields(dir); Thanks for this, Christoph - I'll run some tests on it and check it in. Rafael - this is a regression introduced in 2.6.24-rc1 if you want to track it. Cheers, Dave. -- Dave Chinner Principal Engineer SGI Australian Software Group -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/