From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932709Ab2EYNlH (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 09:41:07 -0400 Received: from lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk ([81.2.110.251]:60216 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932094Ab2EYNlE (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2012 09:41:04 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 May 2012 14:43:59 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: Will Deacon Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Al Viro , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH] pipe: return -ENOIOCTLCMD instead of -EINVAL on unknown ioctl command Message-ID: <20120525144359.712cb21d@pyramind.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1337942353-30979-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> References: <1337942353-30979-1-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.8; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Face: 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 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:39:13 +0100 Will Deacon wrote: > As described in commit 07d106d0a ("vfs: fix up ENOIOCTLCMD error > handling"), drivers should return -ENOIOCTLCMD if they receive an ioctl > command which they don't understand. Doing so will result in -ENOTTY > being returned to userspace, which matches the behaviour of the compat > layer if it fails to translate an ioctl command. > > This patch fixes the pipe ioctl to return -ENOIOCTLCMD instead of > -EINVAL when passed an unknown ioctl command. > > Cc: Al Viro > Cc: Andrew Morton > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon Acked-by: Alan Cox