Re: 2.6.6-rc3: modular DVB tda1004x broken

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> 
> 
> On Sat, 1 May 2004, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > 
> > It seems the DVB updates broke this.
> > 
> > Please _undo_ the patch below.
> 
> No, there's something wrong. Nobody should use a global "errno" variable, 
> and we should fix the real bug (it's probably some buggy system call 
> "interface" function that is being used).
> 
> Can somebody who sees this problem please try to figure out where the 
> buggy user of "errno" is?

It's using open() and lseek(), via KERNEL_SYSCALLS.

Maybe we should change __syscall_return() to return the -ve errno rather
than -1?


diff -puN include/asm-i386/unistd.h~a include/asm-i386/unistd.h
--- 25/include/asm-i386/unistd.h~a	2004-05-01 16:09:35.115389384 -0700
+++ 25-akpm/include/asm-i386/unistd.h	2004-05-01 16:09:49.513200584 -0700
@@ -295,10 +295,6 @@
 
 #define __syscall_return(type, res) \
 do { \
-	if ((unsigned long)(res) >= (unsigned long)(-125)) { \
-		errno = -(res); \
-		res = -1; \
-	} \
 	return (type) (res); \
 } while (0)
 

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