linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 1/3] xen/privcmd: return -ENOTTY for unimplemented IOCTLs

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Date:   Mon, 13 Feb 2017 17:03:22 +0000
From:   Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
To:     <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
CC:     Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>,
        Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>,
        Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] xen/privcmd: return -ENOTTY for unimplemented IOCTLs

The code sets the default return code to -ENOSYS but then overrides this
to -EINVAL in the switch() statement's default case, which is clearly
silly.

This patch removes the override and sets the default return code to
-ENOTTY, which is the conventional return for an unimplemented ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Paul Durrant <paul.durrant@...rix.com>
---
Cc: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Cc: Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>

v2:
- Use -ENOTTY rather than -ENOSYS
---
 drivers/xen/privcmd.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
index 6e3306f..5e5c7ae 100644
--- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
+++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
@@ -551,7 +551,7 @@ static long privcmd_ioctl_mmap_batch(void __user *udata, int version)
 static long privcmd_ioctl(struct file *file,
 			  unsigned int cmd, unsigned long data)
 {
-	int ret = -ENOSYS;
+	int ret = -ENOTTY;
 	void __user *udata = (void __user *) data;
 
 	switch (cmd) {
@@ -572,7 +572,6 @@ static long privcmd_ioctl(struct file *file,
 		break;
 
 	default:
-		ret = -EINVAL;
 		break;
 	}
 
-- 
2.1.4