linux-kernel - [GIT pull] timer fix for 4.5

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.11.1601111852570.3575@nanos>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jan 2016 18:53:59 +0100 (CET)
From:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: [GIT pull] timer fix for 4.5

Linus,

please pull the latest timers-urgent-for-linus git tree from:

   git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git timers-urgent-for-linus

A single fix for the posix-clock poll code which did not make it into 4.4.

Thanks,

	tglx

------------------>
Richard Cochran (1):
      posix-clock: Fix return code on the poll method's error path


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

diff --git a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
index ce033c7aa2e8..9cff0ab82b63 100644
--- a/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
+++ b/kernel/time/posix-clock.c
@@ -69,10 +69,10 @@ static ssize_t posix_clock_read(struct file *fp, char __user *buf,
 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);