This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
block: print symbolic error name instead of error code
to the 5.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
block-print-symbolic-error-name-instead-of-error-cod.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit bf7283875606e572732d9c0ed0af3d47e9bd50ab
Author: Christian Heusel <christian@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jan 12 00:15:18 2024 +0100
block: print symbolic error name instead of error code
[ Upstream commit 25c1772a0493463408489b1fae65cf77fe46cac1 ]
Utilize the %pe print specifier to get the symbolic error name as a
string (i.e "-ENOMEM") in the log message instead of the error code to
increase its readablility.
This change was suggested in
https://lore.kernel.org/all/92972476-0b1f-4d0a-9951-af3fc8bc6e65@suswa.mountain/
Signed-off-by: Christian Heusel <christian@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni <kch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111231521.1596838-1-christian@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx>
Stable-dep-of: 26e197b7f924 ("block: fix potential invalid pointer dereference in blk_add_partition")
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
index e3d61ec4a5a64..dad17a767c331 100644
--- a/block/partitions/core.c
+++ b/block/partitions/core.c
@@ -692,8 +692,8 @@ static bool blk_add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev,
part = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags,
&state->parts[p].info);
if (IS_ERR(part) && PTR_ERR(part) != -ENXIO) {
- printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %ld\n",
- disk->disk_name, p, -PTR_ERR(part));
+ printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %pe\n",
+ disk->disk_name, p, part);
return true;
}
