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authorJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2009-02-01 14:52:56 -0700
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>2009-03-16 08:34:35 -0600
commit60aa49243d09afc873f082567d2e3c16634ced84 (patch)
treebb7c8d9668b35a3aa4e90d0a62500ac9d3e67f7f /fs/ioctl.c
parent76398425bb06b07cc3a3b1ce169c67dc9d6874ed (diff)
downloadlinux-60aa49243d09afc873f082567d2e3c16634ced84.tar.gz
Rationalize fasync return values
Most fasync implementations do something like:

     return fasync_helper(...);

But fasync_helper() will return a positive value at times - a feature used
in at least one place.  Thus, a number of other drivers do:

     err = fasync_helper(...);
     if (err < 0)
             return err;
     return 0;

In the interests of consistency and more concise code, it makes sense to
map positive return values onto zero where ->fasync() is called.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs/ioctl.c')
-rw-r--r--fs/ioctl.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ioctl.c b/fs/ioctl.c
index e8e89edba576..ac2d47e43926 100644
--- a/fs/ioctl.c
+++ b/fs/ioctl.c
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@ static int ioctl_fioasync(unsigned int fd, struct file *filp,
 		else
 			error = -ENOTTY;
 	}
-	return error;
+	return error < 0 ? error : 0;
 }
 
 static int ioctl_fsfreeze(struct file *filp)