The patch titled
fs/partitions/check.c: add error handling for kobject_add
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
fs-partitions-checkc-add-error-handling-for.patch
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Subject: fs/partitions/check.c: add error handling for kobject_add
From: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@xxxxxxxx>
Add error handling to the kobject_add()-call and signal (the even highly
unlikely) error condition.
(akpm: clashes hugely with the presently-reverted
gregkh-driver-block-device.patch)
Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/partitions/check.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN fs/partitions/check.c~fs-partitions-checkc-add-error-handling-for fs/partitions/check.c
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c~fs-partitions-checkc-add-error-handling-for
+++ a/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -371,11 +371,12 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *di
void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t len, int flags)
{
struct hd_struct *p;
+ int err = -EINVAL;
p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
if (!p)
return;
-
+
p->start_sect = start;
p->nr_sects = len;
p->partno = part;
@@ -390,7 +391,13 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk,
p->kobj.parent = &disk->kobj;
p->kobj.ktype = &ktype_part;
kobject_init(&p->kobj);
- kobject_add(&p->kobj);
+
+ err = kobject_add(&p->kobj);
+ if (err) {
+ pr_err("%s: error adding %s to sysfs.\n", __FUNCTION__,
+ kobject_name(&p->kobj));
+ }
+
if (!disk->part_uevent_suppress)
kobject_uevent(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kobj, "subsystem");
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from bbpetkov@xxxxxxxx are
fs-partitions-checkc-add-error-handling-for.patch
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