Without this files in /dev/ appear as regular files. copy_file()
stumbles upon this as it tries a truncate() on that files which
then fails. Create the files as character devices so that copy_file()
works as expected.
Fixes: 9137c41915 ("fs: devfs: Switch to dentry cache implementation")
Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/devfs.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/fs/devfs.c b/fs/devfs.c
index 5d0bb2c674..84c619f1ed 100644
--- a/fs/devfs.c
+++ b/fs/devfs.c
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ static struct inode *devfs_get_inode(struct super_block *sb, const struct inode
switch (mode & S_IFMT) {
default:
return NULL;
- case S_IFREG:
+ case S_IFCHR:
inode->i_op = &devfs_file_inode_operations;
inode->i_fop = &devfs_file_operations;
break;
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ static struct dentry *devfs_lookup(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
if (!cdev)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT);
- inode = devfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, dir, S_IFREG | S_IRWXUGO);
+ inode = devfs_get_inode(dir->i_sb, dir, S_IFCHR | S_IRWXUGO);
if (!inode)
return ERR_PTR(-ENOMEM);
--
2.18.0
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