[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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c
index 0184f510aace..1dcaeda039f4 100644
--- a/mm/swapfile.c
+++ b/mm/swapfile.c
@@ -1381,6 +1381,7 @@ asmlinkage long sys_swapon(const char __user * specialfile, int swap_flags)
                 error = bd_claim(bdev, sys_swapon);
                 if (error < 0) {
                         bdev = NULL;
+                        error = -EINVAL;
                         goto bad_swap;
                 }
                 p->old_block_size = block_size(bdev);