From 43a33c53cc9131a537522ab9736c6e4c03ddf57a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Denis Cheng Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 15:25:04 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] [GFS2] re-support special inode a previous commit removed call to init_special_inode from inode lookuping, this cause problems as: # mknod /mnt/gfs2/dev/null c 1 3 # cat /mnt/gfs2/dev/null cat: /mnt/gfs2/dev/null: Invalid argument without special inode, GFS2 cannot support char device file, block device file, fifo pipe, and socket file, lose many important features as a common file system. this one line patch re add special inode support. Signed-off-by: Denis Cheng Signed-off-by: Steven Whitehouse --- fs/gfs2/inode.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/fs/gfs2/inode.c b/fs/gfs2/inode.c index 7b9f31e5d6d3..92ea9afacb17 100644 --- a/fs/gfs2/inode.c +++ b/fs/gfs2/inode.c @@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ void gfs2_set_iop(struct inode *inode) inode->i_op = &gfs2_symlink_iops; } else { inode->i_op = &gfs2_file_iops; + init_special_inode(inode, inode->i_mode, inode->i_rdev); } unlock_new_inode(inode);