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Subject[PATCH 3.2 23/87] posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path
3.2.77-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>

commit 1b9f23727abb92c5e58f139e7d180befcaa06fe0 upstream.

The posix_clock_poll function is supposed to return a bit mask of
POLLxxx values. However, in case the hardware has disappeared (due to
hot plugging for example) this code returns -ENODEV in a futile
attempt to throw an error at the file descriptor level. The kernel's
file_operations interface does not accept such error codes from the
poll method. Instead, this function aught to return POLLERR.

The value -ENODEV does, in fact, contain the POLLERR bit (and almost
all the other POLLxxx bits as well), but only by chance. This patch
fixes code to return a proper bit mask.

Credit goes to Markus Elfring for pointing out the suspicious
signed/unsigned mismatch.

Reported-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
igned-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
---
kernel/time/posix-clock.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ static ssize_t posix_clock_read(struct f
static unsigned int posix_clock_poll(struct file *fp, poll_table *wait)
{
struct posix_clock *clk = get_posix_clock(fp);
- int result = 0;
+ unsigned int result = 0;

if (!clk)
- return -ENODEV;
+ return POLLERR;

if (clk->ops.poll)
result = clk->ops.poll(clk, fp, wait);
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