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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2008-11-10 15:29:58 +0900 |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> | 2008-11-18 15:08:56 +0100 |
| commit | ba32929a91fe2c0628f5be62d1597b379c8d3062 (patch) | |
| tree | 09ea54ed2d2299d25b92fee6a6dde4d7527a3d37 /fs/partitions | |
| parent | eb60fa1066622ddb2278732cf61e0c4544e82c6f (diff) | |
| download | lwn-ba32929a91fe2c0628f5be62d1597b379c8d3062.tar.gz lwn-ba32929a91fe2c0628f5be62d1597b379c8d3062.zip | |
block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct
Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure. This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/partitions')
| -rw-r--r-- | fs/partitions/check.c | 25 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c index 90bcf136a9de..633025340239 100644 --- a/fs/partitions/check.c +++ b/fs/partitions/check.c @@ -348,8 +348,8 @@ static ssize_t whole_disk_show(struct device *dev, static DEVICE_ATTR(whole_disk, S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH, whole_disk_show, NULL); -int add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno, - sector_t start, sector_t len, int flags) +struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno, + sector_t start, sector_t len, int flags) { struct hd_struct *p; dev_t devt = MKDEV(0, 0); @@ -361,15 +361,15 @@ int add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno, err = disk_expand_part_tbl(disk, partno); if (err) - return err; + return ERR_PTR(err); ptbl = disk->part_tbl; if (ptbl->part[partno]) - return -EBUSY; + return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL); if (!p) - return -ENOMEM; + return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY); if (!init_part_stats(p)) { err = -ENOMEM; @@ -424,20 +424,20 @@ int add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno, if (!ddev->uevent_suppress) kobject_uevent(&pdev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD); - return 0; + return p; out_free_stats: free_part_stats(p); out_free: kfree(p); - return err; + return ERR_PTR(err); out_del: kobject_put(p->holder_dir); device_del(pdev); out_put: put_device(pdev); blk_free_devt(devt); - return err; + return ERR_PTR(err); } /* Not exported, helper to add_disk(). */ @@ -568,10 +568,11 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev) disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) size); size = get_capacity(disk) - from; } - res = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags); - if (res) { - printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %d\n", - disk->disk_name, p, -res); + part = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, + state->parts[p].flags); + if (IS_ERR(part)) { + printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %ld\n", + disk->disk_name, p, -PTR_ERR(part)); continue; } #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD |