From cb2b6167ad3f5cdd5bf0f79d78340aac14dcee5b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Richard Cochran Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:19:58 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path 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 igned-off-by: Richard Cochran Cc: John Stultz Cc: Julia Lawall Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- Reading git-format-patch failed