patch "mei: fix fasync return value on error" added to char-misc-next

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

mei: fix fasync return value on error

to my char-misc git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git
in the char-misc-next branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will also be merged in the next major kernel release during the merge window.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From: Tomas Winkler <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2016 14:46:38 +0200
Subject: mei: fix fasync return value on error

fasync should return a negative value on error
and not poll mask POLLERR.

---
 drivers/misc/mei/main.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

index b2f2486b3d75..677d0362f334 100644
@@ -657,7 +657,9 @@ out:
  * @file: pointer to file structure
  * @band: band bitmap
  *
- * Return: poll mask
+ * Return: negative on error,
+ *         0 if it did no changes,
+ *         and positive a process was added or deleted
  */
 static int mei_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int band)
 {

@@ -665,7 +667,7 @@ static int mei_fasync(int fd, struct file *file, int band)
 	struct mei_cl *cl = file->private_data;
 
 	if (!mei_cl_is_connected(cl))
-		return POLLERR;
+		return -ENODEV;
 
 	return fasync_helper(fd, file, band, &cl->ev_async);
 }

2.6.4