From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936471AbeE1KKR (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2018 06:10:17 -0400 Received: from mail.kernel.org ([198.145.29.99]:58296 "EHLO mail.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933629AbeE1KKH (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 May 2018 06:10:07 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Mauro Carvalho Chehab , Sasha Levin Subject: [PATCH 3.18 072/185] media: dmxdev: fix error code for invalid ioctls Date: Mon, 28 May 2018 12:01:53 +0200 Message-Id: <20180528100056.912837070@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.17.0 In-Reply-To: <20180528100050.700971285@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20180528100050.700971285@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.65 X-stable: review MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab [ Upstream commit a145f64c6107d3aa5a7cec9f8977d04ac2a896c9 ] Returning -EINVAL when an ioctl is not implemented is a very bad idea, as it is hard to distinguish from other error contitions that an ioctl could lead. Replace it by its right error code: -ENOTTY. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c +++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dmxdev.c @@ -1069,7 +1069,7 @@ static int dvb_demux_do_ioctl(struct fil break; default: - ret = -EINVAL; + ret = -ENOTTY; break; } mutex_unlock(&dmxdev->mutex);