From: Michal Schmidt commit 447c5dd7338638f526e9bcf7dcf69b4da5835c7d upstream. A successful write() to the "reset" sysfs attribute should return the number of bytes written, not 0. Otherwise userspace (bash) retries the write over and over again. Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c @@ -939,7 +939,12 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device if (val != 1) return -EINVAL; - return pci_reset_function(pdev); + + result = pci_reset_function(pdev); + if (result < 0) + return result; + + return count; } static struct device_attribute reset_attr = __ATTR(reset, 0200, NULL, reset_store); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/