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authorAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>2009-07-20 16:05:27 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-07-20 16:38:43 -0700
commit23198fda7182969b619613a555f8645fdc3dc334 (patch)
treed6c322a36d955958ab89ffb0a1a7327dc84e180c /drivers/char
parent254702568da63ce6f5ad68e77d83b427da693654 (diff)
downloadlinux-23198fda7182969b619613a555f8645fdc3dc334.tar.gz
tty: fix chars_in_buffers
This function does not have an error return and returning an error is
instead interpreted as having a lot of pending bytes.

Reported by Jeff Harris who provided a list of some of the remaining
offenders.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hvc_console.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/nozomi.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/tty.c4
3 files changed, 4 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
index 94e7e3c8c05a..d97779ef72cb 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hvc_console.c
@@ -552,7 +552,7 @@ static int hvc_chars_in_buffer(struct tty_struct *tty)
 	struct hvc_struct *hp = tty->driver_data;
 
 	if (!hp)
-		return -1;
+		return 0;
 	return hp->n_outbuf;
 }
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/nozomi.c b/drivers/char/nozomi.c
index 280b41c507a7..ec58d8c387ff 100644
--- a/drivers/char/nozomi.c
+++ b/drivers/char/nozomi.c
@@ -1866,16 +1866,14 @@ static s32 ntty_chars_in_buffer(struct tty_struct *tty)
 {
 	struct port *port = tty->driver_data;
 	struct nozomi *dc = get_dc_by_tty(tty);
-	s32 rval;
+	s32 rval = 0;
 
 	if (unlikely(!dc || !port)) {
-		rval = -ENODEV;
 		goto exit_in_buffer;
 	}
 
 	if (unlikely(!port->port.count)) {
 		dev_err(&dc->pdev->dev, "No tty open?\n");
-		rval = -ENODEV;
 		goto exit_in_buffer;
 	}
 
diff --git a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/tty.c b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/tty.c
index 569f2f7743a7..674b3ab3587d 100644
--- a/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/tty.c
+++ b/drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/tty.c
@@ -320,10 +320,10 @@ static int ipw_chars_in_buffer(struct tty_struct *linux_tty)
 	struct ipw_tty *tty = linux_tty->driver_data;
 
 	if (!tty)
-		return -ENODEV;
+		return 0;
 
 	if (!tty->open_count)
-		return -EINVAL;
+		return 0;
 
 	return tty->tx_bytes_queued;
 }