| From | Greg Kroah-Hartman <> | Subject | [PATCH 3.12 029/212] alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesnt exist | Date | Mon, 2 Dec 2013 11:13:40 -0800 |
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3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
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 <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Reported-by: Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch@tiscali.cz> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> [jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational] Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
--- kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ 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); } @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ 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;
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