From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932855AbcBHX56 (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:57:58 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:59938 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932726AbcBHXyl (ORCPT ); Mon, 8 Feb 2016 18:54:41 -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, "Julia Lawall" , "Richard Cochran" , "Thomas Gleixner" , "Markus Elfring" , "John Stultz" Date: Mon, 08 Feb 2016 23:53:51 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 23/87] posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 2a02:8011:400e:2:a11:96ff:fe28:a980 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 3.2.77-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Richard Cochran 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 igned-off-by: Richard Cochran Cc: John Stultz Cc: Julia Lawall Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c +++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c @@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ static ssize_t posix_clock_read(struct f 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);