Yet another issue where we ignore errors - this needs someone to make sure that
I am passing around the right error codes (and am cleaning up correctly)


[PATCH] add_partition silently ignored errors

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---
 block/ioctl.c         |    5 ++++-
 fs/partitions/check.c |   26 ++++++++++++++++++++------
 include/linux/genhd.h |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 52d6385..bb3933e 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -61,7 +61,10 @@ static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct 
blkpg_ioctl_arg __user
                                }
                        }
                        /* all seems OK */
-                       add_partition(disk, part, start, length, 
ADDPART_FLAG_NONE);
+                       if (add_partition(disk, part, start, length, 
ADDPART_FLAG_NONE)) {
+                               mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
+                               return -EBUSY;
+                       }
                        mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
                        return 0;
                case BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION:
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 722e12e..113ecc0 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -368,13 +368,13 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part)
        kobject_put(&p->kobj);
 }
 
-void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t 
len, int flags)
+int add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, sector_t start, sector_t 
len, int flags)
 {
        struct hd_struct *p;
 
        p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!p)
-               return;
+               return -1;
        
        p->start_sect = start;
        p->nr_sects = len;
@@ -390,20 +390,31 @@ void add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part, 
sector_t start, sector_t len,
        p->kobj.parent = &disk->kobj;
        p->kobj.ktype = &ktype_part;
        kobject_init(&p->kobj);
-       kobject_add(&p->kobj);
+       if (kobject_add(&p->kobj)) 
+               return -1;
        if (!disk->part_uevent_suppress)
                kobject_uevent(&p->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
-       sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kobj, "subsystem");
+       if(sysfs_create_link(&p->kobj, &block_subsys.kobj, "subsystem")) {
+               kobject_del(&p->kobj);
+               kfree(p);
+               return -1;
+       }
        if (flags & ADDPART_FLAG_WHOLEDISK) {
                static struct attribute addpartattr = {
                        .name = "whole_disk",
                        .mode = S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH,
                };
 
-               sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr);
+               if (sysfs_create_file(&p->kobj, &addpartattr)) {
+                       kobject_del(&p->kobj);
+                       kfree(p);
+                       return -1;
+               }
        }
        partition_sysfs_add_subdir(p);
        disk->part[part-1] = p;
+       
+       return 0;
 }
 
 static char *make_block_name(struct gendisk *disk)
@@ -554,8 +565,11 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct 
block_device *bdev)
                if (from + size > get_capacity(disk)) {
                        printk(" %s: p%d exceeds device capacity\n",
                                disk->disk_name, p);
+                       return -EBUSY;
+               }
+               if(add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags)) {
+                       return -EBUSY;
                }
-               add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags);
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD
                if (state->parts[p].flags & ADDPART_FLAG_RAID)
                        md_autodetect_dev(bdev->bd_dev+p);
diff --git a/include/linux/genhd.h b/include/linux/genhd.h
index a47b802..ae6af2c 100644
--- a/include/linux/genhd.h
+++ b/include/linux/genhd.h
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ struct unixware_disklabel {
 char *disk_name (struct gendisk *hd, int part, char *buf);
 
 extern int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev);
-extern void add_partition(struct gendisk *, int, sector_t, sector_t, int);
+extern int add_partition(struct gendisk *, int, sector_t, sector_t, int);
 extern void delete_partition(struct gendisk *, int);
 extern void printk_all_partitions(void);
 
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