linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/4] firmware: send -EINTR on signal abort on fallback mechanism

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Message-Id: <20170614222017.14653-5-mcgrof@kernel.org>
Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 15:20:17 -0700
From:   "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...nel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH 4/4] firmware: send -EINTR on signal abort on fallback mechanism

Right now we send -EAGAIN to a syfs write which got interrupted.
Userspace can't tell what happened though, send -EINTR if we
were killed due to a signal so userspace can tell things apart.

This is only applicable to the fallback mechanism.

Reported-by: Martin Fuzzey <mfuzzey@...keon.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <mcgrof@...nel.org>
---
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c | 9 ++++++---
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index 70fc42e5e0da..da043cb16e2f 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -1089,9 +1089,12 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv,
 		mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
 	}
 
-	if (fw_state_is_aborted(&buf->fw_st))
-		retval = -EAGAIN;
-	else if (buf->is_paged_buf && !buf->data)
+	if (fw_state_is_aborted(&buf->fw_st)) {
+		if (retval == -ERESTARTSYS)
+			retval = -EINTR;
+		else
+			retval = -EAGAIN;
+	} else if (buf->is_paged_buf && !buf->data)
 		retval = -ENOMEM;
 
 	device_del(f_dev);
-- 
2.11.0