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authorChristian Heusel <christian@heusel.eu>2024-01-12 00:15:18 +0100
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2024-10-17 15:10:48 +0200
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block: print symbolic error name instead of error code
[ 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.mountain/ 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>
Diffstat (limited to 'block')
-rw-r--r--block/partitions/core.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/block/partitions/core.c b/block/partitions/core.c
index b6a941889bb4..00fb271a6051 100644
--- a/block/partitions/core.c
+++ b/block/partitions/core.c
@@ -591,8 +591,8 @@ static bool blk_add_partition(struct gendisk *disk,
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;
}