linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 043/305] tty: vt, return error when con

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Message-ID: <lsq.1471110171.395754333@decadent.org.uk>
Date:	Sat, 13 Aug 2016 18:42:51 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, "Jiri Slaby" <jslaby@...e.cz>,
	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 043/305] tty: vt, return error when con_startup fails

3.16.37-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>

commit 6798df4c5fe0a7e6d2065cf79649a794e5ba7114 upstream.

When csw->con_startup() fails in do_register_con_driver, we return no
error (i.e. 0). This was changed back in 2006 by commit 3e795de763.
Before that we used to return -ENODEV.

So fix the return value to be -ENODEV in that case again.

Fixes: 3e795de763 ("VT binding: Add binding/unbinding support for the VT console")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>
Reported-by: "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -3591,9 +3591,10 @@ static int do_register_con_driver(const
 		goto err;
 
 	desc = csw->con_startup();
-
-	if (!desc)
+	if (!desc) {
+		retval = -ENODEV;
 		goto err;
+	}
 
 	retval = -EINVAL;