Patch "posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path" has been added to the 4.4-stable tree

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

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

to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
posix-clock-fix-return-code-on-the-poll-method-s-error-path.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2015 22:19:58 +0100
Subject: posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path

From: Richard Cochran <[email protected]>

commit 1b9f23727abb92c5e58f139e7d180befcaa06fe0 upstream.

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.

---
 kernel/time/posix-clock.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ static ssize_t posix_clock_read(struct f
 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);

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/posix-clock-fix-return-code-on-the-poll-method-s-error-path.patch queue-4.4/net-dp83640-fix-tx-timestamp-overflow-handling.patch