From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759528Ab3LBVQh (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 16:16:37 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:38475 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753952Ab3LBTMx (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Dec 2013 14:12:53 -0500 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Frederic Weisbecker , Vit Ondruch , KOSAKI Motohiro , John Stultz Subject: [PATCH 3.10 022/173] alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesnt exist Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:10:05 -0800 Message-Id: <20131202191145.378681080@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.4.3.gca3854a In-Reply-To: <20131202191142.873808297@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20131202191142.873808297@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-8.1.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.10-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: KOSAKI Motohiro commit 98d6f4dd84a134d942827584a3c5f67ffd8ec35f upstream. Fedora Ruby maintainer reported latest Ruby doesn't work on Fedora Rawhide on ARM. (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9008) Because of, commit 1c6b39ad3f (alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no RTC device is present) intruduced to return ENOTSUPP when clock_get{time,res} can't find a RTC device. However this is incorrect. First, ENOTSUPP isn't exported to userland (ENOTSUP or EOPNOTSUP are the closest userland equivlents). Second, Posix and Linux man pages agree that clock_gettime and clock_getres should return EINVAL if clk_id argument is invalid. While the arugment that the clockid is valid, but just not supported on this hardware could be made, this is just a technicality that doesn't help userspace applicaitons, and only complicates error handling. Thus, this patch changes the code to use EINVAL. Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Frederic Weisbecker Reported-by: Vit Ondruch Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro [jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational] Signed-off-by: John Stultz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c @@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_getres(const cloc clockid_t baseid = alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)].base_clockid; if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev()) - return -ENOTSUPP; + return -EINVAL; return hrtimer_get_res(baseid, tp); } @@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_get(clockid_t whi struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)]; if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev()) - return -ENOTSUPP; + return -EINVAL; *tp = ktime_to_timespec(base->gettime()); return 0;