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authorJeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>2005-09-16 19:27:49 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2005-09-17 11:50:00 -0700
commitb4fd310e163477236a241580b3b8c29aee65f4cc (patch)
tree3aec7527c4a9589824cb4d96f87446eb59bdef10 /arch/um/drivers/xterm.c
parent64b7673f91c0c3614028c5942b0d6a91d0b64a98 (diff)
[PATCH] uml: preserve errno in error paths
The poster child for this patch is the third tuntap_user hunk. When an ioctl fails, it properly closes the opened file descriptor and returns. However, the close resets errno to 0, and the 'return errno' that follows returns 0 rather than the value that ioctl set. This caused the caller to believe that the device open succeeded and had opened file descriptor 0, which caused no end of interesting behavior. The rest of this patch is a pass through the UML sources looking for places where errno could be reset before being passed back out. A common culprit is printk, which could call write, being called before errno is returned. In some cases, where the code ends up being much smaller, I just deleted the printk. There was another case where a caller of run_helper looked at errno after a failure, rather than the return value of run_helper, which was the errno value that it wanted. Signed-off-by: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Paolo Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/um/drivers/xterm.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/um/drivers/xterm.c6
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c b/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c
index 93dc1911363..90e0e5ff451 100644
--- a/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c
+++ b/arch/um/drivers/xterm.c
@@ -110,13 +110,15 @@ int xterm_open(int input, int output, int primary, void *d,
fd = mkstemp(file);
if(fd < 0){
+ err = -errno;
printk("xterm_open : mkstemp failed, errno = %d\n", errno);
- return(-errno);
+ return err;
}
if(unlink(file)){
+ err = -errno;
printk("xterm_open : unlink failed, errno = %d\n", errno);
- return(-errno);
+ return err;
}
os_close_file(fd);