[PATCH] Fix bd_claim() error code.
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.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 0184f51..1dcaeda 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@
error = bd_claim(bdev, sys_swapon);
if (error < 0) {
bdev = NULL;
+ error = -EINVAL;
goto bad_swap;
}
p->old_block_size = block_size(bdev);
