5.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Christian Heusel christian@heusel.eu
[ Upstream commit 25c1772a0493463408489b1fae65cf77fe46cac1 ]
Utilize the %pe print specifier to get the symbolic error name as a string (i.e "-ENOMEM") in the log message instead of the error code to increase its readablility.
This change was suggested in https://lore.kernel.org/all/92972476-0b1f-4d0a-9951-af3fc8bc6e65@suswa.mount...
Signed-off-by: Christian Heusel christian@heusel.eu Reviewed-by: Chaitanya Kulkarni kch@nvidia.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240111231521.1596838-1-christian@heusel.eu Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe axboe@kernel.dk Stable-dep-of: 26e197b7f924 ("block: fix potential invalid pointer dereference in blk_add_partition") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin sashal@kernel.org --- block/partitions/core.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c index e3d61ec4a5a64..dad17a767c331 100644 --- a/block/partitions/core.c +++ b/block/partitions/core.c @@ -692,8 +692,8 @@ static bool blk_add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev, part = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags, &state->parts[p].info); if (IS_ERR(part) && PTR_ERR(part) != -ENXIO) { - printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %ld\n", - disk->disk_name, p, -PTR_ERR(part)); + printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %pe\n", + disk->disk_name, p, part); return true; }