block: make add_partition() return pointer to hd_struct

Make add_partition() return pointer to the new hd_struct on success
and ERR_PTR() value on failure. This change will be used to fix md
autodetection bug.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[e-mail]>
Cc: Neil Brown <[e-mail]>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <[e-mail]>

block/ioctl.c

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 	struct disk_part_iter piter;
 	long long start, length;
 	int partno;
-	int err;
 
 	if (!capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
 		return -EACCES;
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 			disk_part_iter_exit(&piter);
 
 			/* all seems OK */
-			err = add_partition(disk, partno, start, length,
-					    ADDPART_FLAG_NONE);
+			part = add_partition(disk, partno, start, length,
+					     ADDPART_FLAG_NONE);
 			mutex_unlock(&bdev->bd_mutex);
-			return err;
+			return IS_ERR(part) ? PTR_ERR(part) : 0;
 		case BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION:
 			part = disk_get_part(disk, partno);
 			if (!part)

fs/partitions/check.c

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 static DEVICE_ATTR(whole_disk, S_IRUSR | S_IRGRP | S_IROTH,
 		   whole_disk_show, NULL);
 
-int add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
-		  sector_t start, sector_t len, int flags)
+struct hd_struct *add_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int partno,
+				sector_t start, sector_t len, int flags)
 {
 	struct hd_struct *p;
 	dev_t devt = MKDEV(0, 0);
···
 
 	err = disk_expand_part_tbl(disk, partno);
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	ptbl = disk->part_tbl;
 
 	if (ptbl->part[partno])
-		return -EBUSY;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
 
 	p = kzalloc(sizeof(*p), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!p)
-		return -ENOMEM;
+		return ERR_PTR(-EBUSY);
 
 	if (!init_part_stats(p)) {
 		err = -ENOMEM;
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 	if (!ddev->uevent_suppress)
 		kobject_uevent(&pdev->kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
 
-	return 0;
+	return p;
 
 out_free_stats:
 	free_part_stats(p);
 out_free:
 	kfree(p);
-	return err;
+	return ERR_PTR(err);
 out_del:
 	kobject_put(p->holder_dir);
 	device_del(pdev);
 out_put:
 	put_device(pdev);
 	blk_free_devt(devt);
-	return err;
+	return ERR_PTR(err);
 }
 
 /* Not exported, helper to add_disk(). */
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 			       disk->disk_name, p, (unsigned long long) size);
 			size = get_capacity(disk) - from;
 		}
-		res = add_partition(disk, p, from, size, state->parts[p].flags);
-		if (res) {
-			printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %d\n",
-				disk->disk_name, p, -res);
+		part = add_partition(disk, p, from, size,
+				     state->parts[p].flags);
+		if (IS_ERR(part)) {
+			printk(KERN_ERR " %s: p%d could not be added: %ld\n",
+			       disk->disk_name, p, -PTR_ERR(part));
 			continue;
 		}
 #ifdef CONFIG_BLK_DEV_MD

include/linux/genhd.h

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 extern int disk_expand_part_tbl(struct gendisk *disk, int target);
 extern int rescan_partitions(struct gendisk *disk, struct block_device *bdev);
-extern int __must_check add_partition(struct gendisk *, int, sector_t, sector_t, int);
+extern struct hd_struct * __must_check add_partition(struct gendisk *disk,
+						     int partno, sector_t start,
+						     sector_t len, int flags);
 extern void delete_partition(struct gendisk *, int);
 extern void printk_all_partitions(void);