posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path

The posix_clock_poll function is supposed to return a bit mask of
POLLxxx values.  However, in case the hardware has disappeared (due to
hot plugging for example) this code returns -ENODEV in a futile
attempt to throw an error at the file descriptor level.  The kernel's
file_operations interface does not accept such error codes from the
poll method.  Instead, this function aught to return POLLERR.

The value -ENODEV does, in fact, contain the POLLERR bit (and almost
all the other POLLxxx bits as well), but only by chance.  This patch
fixes code to return a proper bit mask.

Credit goes to Markus Elfring for pointing out the suspicious
signed/unsigned mismatch.

Reported-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
igned-off-by: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1450819198-17420-1-git-send-email-richardcochran@gmail.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
index ce033c7aa2e8..9cff0ab82b63 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ static ssize_t posix_clock_read(struct file *fp, char __user *buf,
 static unsigned int posix_clock_poll(struct file *fp, poll_table *wait)
 {
         struct posix_clock *clk = get_posix_clock(fp);
-        int result = 0;
+        unsigned int result = 0;
 
         if (!clk)
-                return -ENODEV;
+                return POLLERR;
 
         if (clk->ops.poll)
                 result = clk->ops.poll(clk, fp, wait);