Re: Loop device broken in 2.3.45

From: Alexander Viro (viro@math.psu.edu)
Date: Tue Feb 15 2000 - 05:01:39 EST


On Tue, 15 Feb 2000, B. D. Elliott wrote:

> The following oops happens when trying to "losetup" a regular file:
>

Arrrrgh. Sorry for that braino. Please, do the following:
--- linux-2.3.46-1/drivers/block/loop.c Mon Feb 14 20:12:19 2000
+++ linux-bird.vm/drivers/block/loop.c Tue Feb 15 04:57:55 2000
@@ -453,7 +453,7 @@
                                lo->lo_backing_file = NULL;
                        }
                }
- aops = lo->lo_dentry->d_inode->i_mapping->a_ops;
+ aops = inode->i_mapping->a_ops;
                /*
                 * If we can't read - sorry. If we only can't write - well,
                 * it's going to be read-only.

Wrong patch syndrom. My apologies...

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