rescan_partitions(): make device capacity errors non-fatal
Herton Krzesinski reports that the error-checking changes in 04ebd4ae ("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 <herton@mandriva.com.br> Cc: Abdel Benamrouche <draconux@gmail.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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