From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753888Ab3L2Cy7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:54:59 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:55144 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751987Ab3L2CKH (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:10:07 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Prarit Bhargava" , "Benjamin Herrenschmidt" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:43 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 017/185] powerpc/vio: Fix modalias_show return values In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 31.18.200.85 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.54-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Prarit Bhargava commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 upstream. modalias_show() should return an empty string on error, not -ENODEV. This causes the following false and annoying error: > find /sys/devices -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat >/dev/null cat: /sys/devices/vio/4000/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4001/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4002/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/4004/modalias: No such device cat: /sys/devices/vio/modalias: No such device Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c | 12 ++++++++---- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c @@ -1351,11 +1351,15 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct devi const char *cp; dn = dev->of_node; - if (!dn) - return -ENODEV; + if (!dn) { + strcat(buf, "\n"); + return strlen(buf); + } cp = of_get_property(dn, "compatible", NULL); - if (!cp) - return -ENODEV; + if (!cp) { + strcat(buf, "\n"); + return strlen(buf); + } return sprintf(buf, "vio:T%sS%s\n", vio_dev->type, cp); }