Re: [PATCH] lightnvm: propagate pblk_init return to userspace

From: Matias BjÃrling
Date: Fri Apr 21 2017 - 14:37:38 EST


On 04/21/2017 05:07 PM, Javier GonzÃlez wrote:
On 20 Apr 2017, at 20.23, Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From userspace calling ioctl(NVM_DEV_CREATE) was returning ENOMEM for
invalid arguments even though pblk (pblk_init) was returning correctly
-EINVAL to nvm_create_tgt inside core. This patch propagates the
correct return value to userspace.

Because pblk was introduced recently this only needs to go in 4.12.

Fixes: a4bd217b4326 ("lightnvm: physical block device (pblk) target")
Signed-off-by: Rakesh Pandit <rakesh@xxxxxxxxxx>


Looks good.

Reviewed-by: Javier GonzÃlez <javier@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Javier



Jens, would you pick this up as well? :)