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Message-ID: <20080416221524.GA7112@us.ibm.com>
Date:	Wed, 16 Apr 2008 15:15:24 -0700
From:	sukadev@...ibm.com
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	serue@...ibm.com, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	hpa@...or.com, Containers <containers@...ts.osdl.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH]: Propagate error code from devpts_pty_new

From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>
Subject: [PATCH]: Propagate error code from devpts_pty_new

Have ptmx_open() propagate any error code returned by devpts_pty_new()
(which returns either 0 or -ENOMEM anyway).

Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@...ibm.com>
---
 drivers/char/tty_io.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6.25-rc8-mm2/drivers/char/tty_io.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.25-rc8-mm2.orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c	2008-04-16 09:38:23.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.25-rc8-mm2/drivers/char/tty_io.c	2008-04-16 09:51:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -2835,8 +2835,8 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode
 	filp->private_data = tty;
 	file_move(filp, &tty->tty_files);
 
-	retval = -ENOMEM;
-	if (devpts_pty_new(tty->link))
+	retval = devpts_pty_new(tty->link);
+	if (retval)
 		goto out1;
 
 	check_tty_count(tty, "tty_open");
--
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