[PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications

Implement the half-closed devices notifiation, by adding a new POLLRDHUP
(and its alias EPOLLRDHUP) bit to the existing poll/select sets.  Since the
existing POLLHUP handling, that does not report correctly half-closed
devices, was feared to be changed, this implementation leaves the current
POLLHUP reporting unchanged and simply add a new bit that is set in the few
places where it makes sense.  The same thing was discussed and conceptually
agreed quite some time ago:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2003/7/12/116

Since this new event bit is added to the existing Linux poll infrastruture,
even the existing poll/select system calls will be able to use it.  As far
as the existing POLLHUP handling, the patch leaves it as is.  The
pollrdhup-2.6.16.rc5-0.10.diff defines the POLLRDHUP for all the existing
archs and sets the bit in the six relevant files.  The other attached diff
is the simple change required to sys/epoll.h to add the EPOLLRDHUP
definition.

There is "a stupid program" to test POLLRDHUP delivery here:

 http://www.xmailserver.org/pollrdhup-test.c

It tests poll(2), but since the delivery is same epoll(2) will work equally.

Signed-off-by: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/sctp/socket.c b/net/sctp/socket.c
index 0ea947eb6813..b6e4b89539b3 100644
--- a/net/sctp/socket.c
+++ b/net/sctp/socket.c
@@ -4894,6 +4894,8 @@ unsigned int sctp_poll(struct file *file, struct socket *sock, poll_table *wait)
         /* Is there any exceptional events?  */
         if (sk->sk_err || !skb_queue_empty(&sk->sk_error_queue))
                 mask |= POLLERR;
+        if (sk->sk_shutdown & RCV_SHUTDOWN)
+                mask |= POLLRDHUP;
         if (sk->sk_shutdown == SHUTDOWN_MASK)
                 mask |= POLLHUP;