From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756838Ab3L2DFZ (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 22:05:25 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:54987 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751799Ab3L2CJr (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 Dec 2013 21:09:47 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Frederic Weisbecker" , "John Stultz" , "Vit Ondruch" , "KOSAKI Motohiro" , "Thomas Gleixner" Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2013 03:08:43 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 008/185] alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 31.18.200.85 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.54-rc1 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: Ben Hutchings --- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c @@ -468,7 +468,7 @@ 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); } @@ -485,7 +485,7 @@ 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;