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efivarfs: return accurate error code in efivarfs_fill_super()
authorMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:46:30 +0000 (12:46 +0000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 14 Mar 2013 18:26:25 +0000 (11:26 -0700)
commit4040a8aa3b0feb80776a993bdf315bfaa5a10dc8
tree21dd2e64b5b1283bcbc54529d2f5bc21a64fb070
parente59bcdae87ec116dde25da6d725f79fefb253693
efivarfs: return accurate error code in efivarfs_fill_super()

commit feff5dc4f98330d8152b521acc2e18c16712e6c8 upstream.

Joseph was hitting a failure case when mounting efivarfs which
resulted in an incorrect error message,

  $ sudo mount -v /sys/firmware/efi/efivars mount: Cannot allocate memory

triggered when efivarfs_valid_name() returned -EINVAL.

Make sure we pass accurate return values up the stack if
efivarfs_fill_super() fails to build inodes for EFI variables.

Reported-by: Joseph Yasi <joe.yasi@gmail.com>
Reported-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/firmware/efivars.c