linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.11 085/272] alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist

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Date:	Fri,  6 Dec 2013 12:56:14 +0000
From:	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org,
	kernel-team@...ts.ubuntu.com
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.11 085/272] alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist

3.11.10.1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...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@...utronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>
Reported-by: Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch@...cali.cz>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
[jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques@...onical.com>
---
 kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index eec50fc..88c9c65 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_getres(const clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
 	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 which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
 	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;
-- 
1.8.3.2

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