From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
[ 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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
---
block/partitions/core.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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);
--
2.25.1
