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From: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: [PATCH] Fix bd_claim() error code.
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 05:37:04 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200509170537.04473.rob@landley.net> (raw)

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>

Problem: In some circumstances, bd_claim() is returning the wrong error code.

If we try to swapon an unused block device that isn't swap formatted, we get
-EINVAL.  But if that same block device is already mounted, we instead get
-EBUSY, even though it still isn't a valid swap device.

This issue came up on the busybox list trying to get the error message
from "swapon -a" right.  If a swap device is already enabled, we get -EBUSY,
and we shouldn't report this as an error.  But we can't distinguish the two
-EBUSY conditions, which are very different errors.

In the code, bd_claim() returns either 0 or -EBUSY, but in this case busy
means "somebody other than sys_swapon has already claimed this", and
_that_ means this block device can't be a valid swap device.  So return
-EINVAL there.

--- linux-2.6.13.1/mm/swapfile.c 2005-09-09 21:42:58.000000000 -0500
+++ linux-2.6.13.1-new/mm/swapfile.c 2005-09-17 02:42:45.000000000 -0500
@@ -1358,6 +1358,7 @@
   error = bd_claim(bdev, sys_swapon);
   if (error < 0) {
    bdev = NULL;
+   error = -EINVAL;
    goto bad_swap;
   }
   p->old_block_size = block_size(bdev);

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