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[5.8,048/177] block: restore a specific error code in bdev_del_partition

Message ID 20200915140655.927381074@linuxfoundation.org
State New
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Greg Kroah-Hartman Sept. 15, 2020, 2:11 p.m. UTC 
From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

[ Upstream commit 88ce2a530cc9865a894454b2e40eba5957a60e1a ]

mdadm relies on the fact that deleting an invalid partition returns
-ENXIO or -ENOTTY to detect if a block device is a partition or a
whole device.

Fixes: 08fc1ab6d748 ("block: fix locking in bdev_del_partition")
Reported-by: kernel test robot <rong.a.chen@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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 block/partitions/core.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
index 534e11285a8d4..b45539764c994 100644
--- a/block/partitions/core.c
+++ b/block/partitions/core.c
@@ -529,7 +529,7 @@  int bdev_del_partition(struct block_device *bdev, int partno)
 
 	bdevp = bdget_disk(bdev->bd_disk, partno);
 	if (!bdevp)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return -ENXIO;
 
 	mutex_lock(&bdevp->bd_mutex);
 	mutex_lock_nested(&bdev->bd_mutex, 1);