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Subject[PATCH] block: allow deleting zero length partition
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delete_partition() was noop for zero length partition.  As the
addition code allows creating zero lenght partition and deletion is
assumed to always succeed, this causes memory leak for zero length
partitions. Allow zero length partitions to end their meaningless
lives.

While at it, allow deleting zero lenght partition via
BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION ioctl too.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
---
block/ioctl.c | 2 --
fs/partitions/check.c | 2 --
2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block/ioctl.c b/block/ioctl.c
index 375c579..c722de0 100644
--- a/block/ioctl.c
+++ b/block/ioctl.c
@@ -68,8 +68,6 @@ static int blkpg_ioctl(struct block_device *bdev, struct blkpg_ioctl_arg __user
case BLKPG_DEL_PARTITION:
if (!disk->part[part-1])
return -ENXIO;
- if (disk->part[part - 1]->nr_sects == 0)
- return -ENXIO;
bdevp = bdget_disk(disk, part);
if (!bdevp)
return -ENOMEM;
diff --git a/fs/partitions/check.c b/fs/partitions/check.c
index 7d6b34e..1b1808e 100644
--- a/fs/partitions/check.c
+++ b/fs/partitions/check.c
@@ -325,8 +325,6 @@ void delete_partition(struct gendisk *disk, int part)

if (!p)
return;
- if (!p->nr_sects)
- return;
disk->part[part-1] = NULL;
p->start_sect = 0;
p->nr_sects = 0;
--
1.5.4.5


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