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libdevmapper: propagate kernel ioctl error on _dm_create_device()

Let's not make up synthetic errors if the kernel returns a useful error to us.

Specifically, if we try to actviate a dm-verity device with a signed root hash, it's import to know when we couldn't activate it due to the signing key missing in the kernel keyring. The kernel reports a nice error code in that case (ENOKEY), let's make sure this is propagated back to clients.

This patch is not sufficient to fix this properly. There's a patch needed to fix errno propagation also in libdevmapper:

lvmteam/lvm2!3 (merged)

With both patches applied we get correct error code reporting.

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