mdadm relies on the fact that deleting an invalid partition returns
-ENXIO or -ENOTTY to detect if a block device is a partition or a
whole device.
Fixes: 08fc1ab6d748 ("block: fix locking in bdev_del_partition")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
---
block/partitions/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
index 5b4869c08fb380..722406b841dfc7 100644
--- a/block/partitions/core.c
+++ b/block/partitions/core.c
@@ -537,7 +537,7 @@ int bdev_del_partition(struct block_device *bdev, int partno)
bdevp = bdget_disk(bdev->bd_disk, partno);
if (!bdevp)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ return -ENXIO;
mutex_lock(&bdevp->bd_mutex);
mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, 1);
--
2.28.0
