This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
powerpc/vio: Fix modalias_show return values
to the 3.11-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:
powerpc-vio-fix-modalias_show-return-values.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.11 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2013 09:33:36 -0400
Subject: powerpc/vio: Fix modalias_show return values
From: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit e82b89a6f19bae73fb064d1b3dd91fcefbb478f4 upstream.
modalias_show() should return an empty string on error, not -ENODEV.
This causes the following false and annoying error:
> find /sys/devices -name modalias -print0 | xargs -0 cat >/dev/null
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4000/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4001/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4002/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/4004/modalias: No such device
cat: /sys/devices/vio/modalias: No such device
Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c | 12 ++++++++----
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vio.c
@@ -1529,11 +1529,15 @@ static ssize_t modalias_show(struct devi
const char *cp;
dn = dev->of_node;
- if (!dn)
- return -ENODEV;
+ if (!dn) {
+ strcat(buf, "\n");
+ return strlen(buf);
+ }
cp = of_get_property(dn, "compatible", NULL);
- if (!cp)
- return -ENODEV;
+ if (!cp) {
+ strcat(buf, "\n");
+ return strlen(buf);
+ }
return sprintf(buf, "vio:T%sS%s\n", vio_dev->type, cp);
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from prarit@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.11/powerpc-vio-fix-modalias_show-return-values.patch
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