Herton Krzesinski reports that the error-checking changes in
04ebd4aee5 ("block/ioctl.c and
fs/partition/check.c: check value returned by add_partition") cause his
buggy USB camera to no longer mount. "The camera is an Olympus X-840.
The original issue comes from the camera itself: its format program
creates a partition with an off by one error".
Buggy devices happen. It is better for the kernel to warn and to proceed
with the mount.
Reported-by: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <[email protected]>
Cc: Abdel Benamrouche <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
Cc: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Cc: David Brownell <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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