From patchwork Thu Jun 9 21:16:23 2016 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Kamal Mostafa X-Patchwork-Id: 633354 Return-Path: X-Original-To: incoming@patchwork.ozlabs.org Delivered-To: patchwork-incoming@bilbo.ozlabs.org Received: from huckleberry.canonical.com (huckleberry.canonical.com [91.189.94.19]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3rQdh81zTrz9sdb; Fri, 10 Jun 2016 07:28:08 +1000 (AEST) Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=huckleberry.canonical.com) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtp (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1bB7Ui-0000P4-W7; Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:28:04 +0000 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]) by huckleberry.canonical.com with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1bB7N9-0004ev-U3 for kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com; Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:20:15 +0000 Received: from 1.general.kamal.us.vpn ([10.172.68.52] helo=fourier) by youngberry.canonical.com with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.76) (envelope-from ) id 1bB7N9-0005Wn-Fw; Thu, 09 Jun 2016 21:20:15 +0000 Received: from kamal by fourier with local (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1bB7N6-0006Jp-PJ; Thu, 09 Jun 2016 14:20:12 -0700 From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 174/206] tty: vt, return error when con_startup fails Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:16:23 -0700 Message-Id: <1465507015-23052-175-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.7.4 In-Reply-To: <1465507015-23052-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1465507015-23052-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> X-Extended-Stable: 4.2 Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kamal Mostafa , Jiri Slaby X-BeenThere: kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Kernel team discussions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , MIME-Version: 1.0 Errors-To: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com Sender: kernel-team-bounces@lists.ubuntu.com 4.2.8-ckt12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ---8<------------------------------------------------------------ From: Jiri Slaby commit 6798df4c5fe0a7e6d2065cf79649a794e5ba7114 upstream. When csw->con_startup() fails in do_register_con_driver, we return no error (i.e. 0). This was changed back in 2006 by commit 3e795de763. Before that we used to return -ENODEV. So fix the return value to be -ENODEV in that case again. Fixes: 3e795de763 ("VT binding: Add binding/unbinding support for the VT console") Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby Reported-by: "Dan Carpenter" Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 4462d16..cf20282 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -3583,9 +3583,10 @@ static int do_register_con_driver(const struct consw *csw, int first, int last) goto err; desc = csw->con_startup(); - - if (!desc) + if (!desc) { + retval = -ENODEV; goto err; + } retval = -EINVAL;