drivers: misc: pass miscdevice pointer via file private data
For misc devices, inode->i_cdev doesn't point to the device drivers own
data. Link between file operations and device driver internal data is
lost. Pass pointer to misc device struct via file private data for driver
open function use.
Signed-off-by: Samu Onkalo <samu.p.onkalo@nokia.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/drivers/char/misc.c b/drivers/char/misc.c
index 92ab03d..cd650ca 100644
--- a/drivers/char/misc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/misc.c
@@ -144,6 +144,7 @@
old_fops = file->f_op;
file->f_op = new_fops;
if (file->f_op->open) {
+ file->private_data = c;
err=file->f_op->open(inode,file);
if (err) {
fops_put(file->f_op);