| From | Kamal Mostafa <> | Subject | [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 174/206] tty: vt, return error when con_startup fails | Date | Thu, 9 Jun 2016 14:16:23 -0700 |
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4.2.8-ckt12 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
commit 6798df4c5fe0a7e6d2065cf79649a794e5ba7114 upstream.
When csw->con_startup() fails in do_register_con_driver, we return no error (i.e. 0). This was changed back in 2006 by commit 3e795de763. Before that we used to return -ENODEV.
So fix the return value to be -ENODEV in that case again.
Fixes: 3e795de763 ("VT binding: Add binding/unbinding support for the VT console") Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz> Reported-by: "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 4462d16..cf20282 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -3583,9 +3583,10 @@ static int do_register_con_driver(const struct consw *csw, int first, int last) goto err; desc = csw->con_startup(); - - if (!desc) + if (!desc) { + retval = -ENODEV; goto err; + } retval = -EINVAL; -- 2.7.4
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