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| author | KOSAKI Motohiro | 2013-10-14 17:33:16 -0400 |
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| committer | John Stultz | 2013-10-18 16:23:58 -0700 |
| commit | 98d6f4dd84a134d942827584a3c5f67ffd8ec35f (patch) | |
| tree | 2a8d2c772e71b49b4d99e356bbd86d3b55ea8262 /kernel/time | |
| parent | 4a7d3e8a9939cf8073c247286d81cbe0ae48eba2 (diff) | |
alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist
Fedora Ruby maintainer reported latest Ruby doesn't work on Fedora Rawhide
on ARM. (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9008)
Because of, commit 1c6b39ad3f (alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no
RTC device is present) intruduced to return ENOTSUPP when
clock_get{time,res} can't find a RTC device. However this is incorrect.
First, ENOTSUPP isn't exported to userland (ENOTSUP or EOPNOTSUP are the
closest userland equivlents).
Second, Posix and Linux man pages agree that clock_gettime and
clock_getres should return EINVAL if clk_id argument is invalid.
While the arugment that the clockid is valid, but just not supported
on this hardware could be made, this is just a technicality that
doesn't help userspace applicaitons, and only complicates error
handling.
Thus, this patch changes the code to use EINVAL.
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> #3.0 and up
Reported-by: Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch@tiscali.cz>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>
[jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/time')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c index eec50fcef9e4..88c9c65a430d 100644 --- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c +++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c @@ -490,7 +490,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_getres(const clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp) clockid_t baseid = alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)].base_clockid; if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev()) - return -ENOTSUPP; + return -EINVAL; return hrtimer_get_res(baseid, tp); } @@ -507,7 +507,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_get(clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp) struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)]; if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev()) - return -ENOTSUPP; + return -EINVAL; *tp = ktime_to_timespec(base->gettime()); return 0; |