This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
mei: fix fasync return value on error
to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree
(usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release
during the merge window.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
>From ed6dc538e5a36a331b6256d54f435c80f6715460 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:46:38 +0200
Subject: mei: fix fasync return value on error
fasync should return a negative value on error
and not poll mask POLLERR.
Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 4.3+
Cc: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
index b2f2486b3d75..677d0362f334 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/main.c
@@ -657,7 +657,9 @@ out:
* @file: pointer to file structure
* @band: band bitmap
*
- * Return: poll mask
+ * Return: negative on error,
+ * 0 if it did no changes,
+ * and positive a process was added or deleted
*/
static int mei_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int band)
{
@@ -665,7 +667,7 @@ static int mei_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int band)
struct mei_cl *cl = file->private_data;
if (!mei_cl_is_connected(cl))
- return POLLERR;
+ return -ENODEV;
return fasync_helper(fd, file, band, &cl->ev_async);
}
--
2.6.4
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