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SubjectRe: [PATCH] jffs2: Fix mounting under new mount API
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Hello!

On 26.09.2019 17:21, David Howells wrote:

> The mounting of jffs2 is broken due to the changes from the new mount API
> because it specifies a "source" operation, but then doesn't actually
> process it. But because it specified it, it doesn't return -ENOPARAM and

What specified what? Too many "it"'s to figure that out. :-)

> the caller doesn't process it either and the source gets lost.
>
> Fix this by simply removing the source parameter from jffs2 and letting the
> VFS deal with it in the default manner.
>
> To test it, enable CONFIG_MTD_MTDRAM and allow the default size and erase
> block size parameters, then try and mount the /dev/mtdblock<N> file that
> that creates as jffs2. No need to initialise it.

One "that" should be enough. :-)

> Fixes: ec10a24f10c8 ("vfs: Convert jffs2 to use the new mount API")
> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
> cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
> cc: linux-mtd@lists.infradead.org
[...]

MBR, Sergei

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