[PATCH] fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly
The only error code which comes from the partition checkers is -1, when
they finds an EIO. As per the discussion, ENOMEM values were ignored,
as they might scare the users.
So, with the current code, we end up returning -1 and not EIO for the
ioctl() calls. Which doesn't give any clue to the user of what went
wrong.
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index e46d237..8a7d003 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -541,7 +541,7 @@
if (!get_capacity(disk) || !(state = check_partition(disk, bdev)))
return 0;
if (IS_ERR(state)) /* I/O error reading the partition table */
- return PTR_ERR(state);
+ return -EIO;
for (p = 1; p < state->limit; p++) {
sector_t size = state->parts[p].size;
sector_t from = state->parts[p].from;