The patch titled
fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fix-rescan_partitions-to-return-errors-properly.patch
See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find
out what to do about this
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Subject: fix rescan_partitions to return errors properly
From: Suzuki Kp <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Suzuki K P <suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Erik Mouw <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
fs/partitions/check.c | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN fs/partitions/check.c~fix-rescan_partitions-to-return-errors-properly fs/partitions/check.c
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c~fix-rescan_partitions-to-return-errors-properly
+++ a/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, stru
else if (warn_no_part)
printk(" unable to read partition table\n");
kfree(state);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(res);
}
/*
@@ -460,6 +460,8 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *di
disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
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);
for (p = 1; p < state->limit; p++) {
sector_t size = state->parts[p].size;
sector_t from = state->parts[p].from;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from suzuki@xxxxxxxxxx are
fix-rescan_partitions-to-return-errors-properly.patch
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