On Tue, 04/21 19:58, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-03-24 at 18:16 +0800, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > If the disk can't read capacity, we should return an error.
>
> I'm not sure I buy this: you need to justify why.
>
> For instance removable media return an error in revalidate that causes
> the medium not present flag to be set ... do we really want to propagate
> the error in that case?
I think we should. There is a command failed, and the user won't get a valid
disk size.
>
> > Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <famz@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > block/partition-generic.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/block/partition-generic.c b/block/partition-generic.c
> > index 0d9e5f9..1e60d7d 100644
> > --- a/block/partition-generic.c
> > +++ b/block/partition-generic.c
> > @@ -427,11 +427,11 @@ rescan:
> > return res;
> >
> > if (disk->fops->revalidate_disk)
> > - disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
> > + res = disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
>
> You're assuming here that a negative error code is being returned, but
> some (cciss) seem to be returning 1 on error.
>
> You'll need to assure us that you've checked all the consumers before
> making this change.
I'll look at the return values.
Fam
>
> James
>
> > check_disk_size_change(disk, bdev);
> > bdev->bd_invalidated = 0;
> > - if (!get_capacity(disk) || !(state = check_partition(disk, bdev)))
> > - return 0;
> > + if (res || !get_capacity(disk) || !(state = check_partition(disk, bdev)))
> > + return res;
> > if (IS_ERR(state)) {
> > /*
> > * I/O error reading the partition table. If any
>
>
>
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