| Message ID | 1454029645-9709-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com |
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diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c index ce033c7..9cff0ab 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);
This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree which can be found at: http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt14. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please reply to this email. For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable Thanks. -Kamal ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From 1e0129e97ed6b31513ad0b4d43202bab539f15ad Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:19:58 +0100 Subject: 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: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) -- 1.9.1