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| author | Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> | 2015-12-22 22:19:58 +0100 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2016-03-03 15:07:15 -0800 |
| commit | b8175b171fde996b5306fd113bd865506166df19 (patch) | |
| tree | 0e37316d901259b9bd969df4efdce216f68891dc /kernel | |
| parent | b966c761afe6d8560b463fe695525c883ce3fea6 (diff) | |
posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path
commit 1b9f23727abb92c5e58f139e7d180befcaa06fe0 upstream.
The posix_clock_poll function is supposed to return a bit mask of
POLLxxx values. However, in case the hardware has disappeared (due to
hot plugging for example) this code returns -ENODEV in a futile
attempt to throw an error at the file descriptor level. The kernel's
file_operations interface does not accept such error codes from the
poll method. Instead, this function aught to return POLLERR.
The value -ENODEV does, in fact, contain the POLLERR bit (and almost
all the other POLLxxx bits as well), but only by chance. This patch
fixes code to return a proper bit mask.
Credit goes to Markus Elfring for pointing out the suspicious
signed/unsigned mismatch.
Reported-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
igned-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c index ce033c7aa2e8..9cff0ab82b63 100644 --- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c @@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ static ssize_t posix_clock_read(struct file *fp, char __user *buf, static unsigned int posix_clock_poll(struct file *fp, poll_table *wait) { struct posix_clock *clk = get_posix_clock(fp); - int result = 0; + unsigned int result = 0; if (!clk) - return -ENODEV; + return POLLERR; if (clk->ops.poll) result = clk->ops.poll(clk, fp, wait); |