Re: [PATCH] scsi_sysfs: Fix queue_ramp_up_period return code

[Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>]

On 10/26/15 07:54, Peter Oberparleiter wrote:
> Writing a number to /sys/bus/scsi/devices/<sdev>/queue_ramp_up_period
> returns the value of that number instead of the number of bytes written.
> This behavior can confuse programs expecting POSIX write() semantics.
> Fix this by returning the number of bytes written instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> ---
>   drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> index b333389..6b0f292 100644
> --- a/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
> @@ -898,7 +898,7 @@ sdev_store_queue_ramp_up_period(struct device *dev,
>   		return -EINVAL;
>
>   	sdev->queue_ramp_up_period = msecs_to_jiffies(period);
> -	return period;
> +	return count;
>   }
>
>   static DEVICE_ATTR(queue_ramp_up_period, S_IRUGO | S_IWUSR,

Hello Peter,

Good catch. But please CC the people who introduced this code and also 
"stable" (see also commit 4a84067dbfce436b81779e585bf712b02ceee552).

Thanks,

Bart.