Merge pull request #60510 from andrewsykim/automated-cherry-pick-of-#…

…60440-origin-release-1.9

Automatic merge from submit-queue.

Cherry pick 60440 to release v1.9

Cherry pick of #60440

```release-note
kubelet: fix bug where character devices are not recognized
```

cc @saad-ali @jsafrane @dixudx

pkg/util/mount/mount_linux.go

@@ -437,7 +437,7 @@ func (mounter *Mounter) GetFileType(pathname string) (FileType, error) {
 	case syscall.S_IFBLK:
 		return FileTypeBlockDev, nil
 	case syscall.S_IFCHR:
-		return FileTypeBlockDev, nil
+		return FileTypeCharDev, nil
 	case syscall.S_IFDIR:
 		return FileTypeDirectory, nil
 	case syscall.S_IFREG: