On 11/08/15 11:52, Daniel Baluta wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 12:56 PM, Linus Walleij
> <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> This makes the error from iio_event_getfd() percolate up
>> to userspace properly so we can know for sure there is no
>> events on this device (-ENODEV returned). Before this patch
>> we would bail out looking for the unsupported evens on the
>> erroneous (negative) file descriptor.
>
> Good catch. s/evens/events
>
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Acked-by: Daniel Baluta <daniel.baluta@xxxxxxxxx>
Applied to the togreg branch of iio.git. Initially pushed
out as testing. I'm not sending this as a fix as the error
that resulted was downright missleading, but unlikely to
have caused any nasty crashes or similar.
If you think if should be going in faster/ for stable then
let me know.
Jonathan
>
>> ---
>> drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
>> index 3524b0de8721..9492aa443a26 100644
>> --- a/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
>> +++ b/drivers/iio/industrialio-core.c
>> @@ -1130,6 +1130,8 @@ static long iio_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
>>
>> if (cmd == IIO_GET_EVENT_FD_IOCTL) {
>> fd = iio_event_getfd(indio_dev);
>> + if (fd < 0)
>> + return fd;
>> if (copy_to_user(ip, &fd, sizeof(fd)))
>> return -EFAULT;
>> return 0;
>> --
>> 2.4.3
>>
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