This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drivers: uio: Fix UIO device registration failure
to the 3.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drivers-uio-fix-uio-device-registration-failure.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 5ed0505c713805f89473cdc0bbfb5110dfd840cb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 10:31:22 +0900
Subject: drivers: uio: Fix UIO device registration failure
From: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 5ed0505c713805f89473cdc0bbfb5110dfd840cb upstream.
Until recently uio_get_minor() returned 0 for success and
a negative value on failure. This became non-negative for suceess and
negative for failure. Restore the original return value spec so that we can
successfully initialize UIO devices with a non-zero minor device
number.
Signed-off-by: Damian Hobson-Garcia <dhobsong@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Hans J. Koch" <hjk@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Guenter Roeck <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/uio/uio.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/drivers/uio/uio.c
+++ b/drivers/uio/uio.c
@@ -374,6 +374,7 @@ static int uio_get_minor(struct uio_devi
retval = idr_alloc(&uio_idr, idev, 0, UIO_MAX_DEVICES, GFP_KERNEL);
if (retval >= 0) {
idev->minor = retval;
+ retval = 0;
} else if (retval == -ENOSPC) {
dev_err(idev->dev, "too many uio devices\n");
retval = -EINVAL;
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from dhobsong@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.9/drivers-uio-fix-uio-device-registration-failure.patch
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