[PATCH] devfs: race fixes and cleanup
From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru> - use struct nameidata in devfs_d_revalidate_wait to detect when it is called without i_sem hold; take i_sem on parent in this case. This prevents both deadlock with devfs_lookup by allowing it to drop i_sem consistently and oops in d_instantiate by ensuring that it always runs protected - remove dead code that deals with major number allocation. The only remaining user was devfs itself and patch changes it to - use register_chardev to get device number for internal /dev/.devfsd and /dev/.statd. - remove dead auto allocation flag as well - remove code that does module get on dev open - it is handled by fops_get. Use init_special_inode consistently - get rid of struct cdev_type and bdev_type - both have just single dev_t now
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