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-rw-r--r--fs/partitions/check.c4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 6fb4b6150d7..0b6113ba3b7 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -177,7 +177,7 @@ check_partition(struct gendisk *hd, struct block_device *bdev)
else if (warn_no_part)
printk(" unable to read partition table\n");
kfree(state);
- return NULL;
+ return ERR_PTR(res);
}
/*
@@ -494,6 +494,8 @@ int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev)
disk->fops->revalidate_disk(disk);
if (!get_capacity(disk) || !(state = check_partition(disk, bdev)))
return 0;
+ if (IS_ERR(state)) /* I/O error reading the partition table */
+ return PTR_ERR(state);
for (p = 1; p < state->limit; p++) {
sector_t size = state->parts[p].size;
sector_t from = state->parts[p].from;