Re: [PATCH] init/do_mounts: Add create_dev() failure log

[Randy Dunlap]

On 05/22/15 05:37, Vishnu Pratap Singh wrote:
> if create_dev() function fails to create the root mount device (/dev/root),
> then it goes to panic as root device not found but there is no check/log
> present in case of failure, So i have added the log in case it fails to create
> the root device. It will help in debugging.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vishnu Pratap Singh <vishnu.ps@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  init/do_mounts.h |    6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/init/do_mounts.h b/init/do_mounts.h
> index f5b978a..40c85e9 100644
> --- a/init/do_mounts.h
> +++ b/init/do_mounts.h
> @@ -15,8 +15,12 @@ extern int root_mountflags;
>  
>  static inline int create_dev(char *name, dev_t dev)
>  {
> +	int ret;
>  	sys_unlink(name);
> -	return sys_mknod(name, S_IFBLK|0600, new_encode_dev(dev));
> +	ret = sys_mknod(name, S_IFBLK|0600, new_encode_dev(dev));
> +	if(ret < 0)

	if (ret < 0)

> +		printk(KERN_ERR " Failed to create %s device !! err: %d\n", name, ret);

Don't need space before 'Failed'.

> +	return ret;
>  }
>  
>  #if BITS_PER_LONG == 32
> 


-- 
~Randy
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