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authorSukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com>2008-04-30 00:54:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-30 08:29:48 -0700
commit4f8f9d66cdac4845409f7520e4f287a1907a6bf9 (patch)
tree5b70fe024acd91a64e1c6b8848637e753cdb9b1a /drivers/char
parent86a96538178f923aa1aa43c1e7cfec5951df7f8a (diff)
devpts: propagate error code from devpts_pty_new
Have ptmx_open() propagate any error code returned by devpts_pty_new() (which returns either 0 or -ENOMEM anyway). Signed-off-by: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Serge Hallyn <serue@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/tty_io.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_io.c b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
index ddfa529936e..edcb7e471f0 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_io.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_io.c
@@ -2838,8 +2838,8 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
filp->private_data = tty;
file_move(filp, &tty->tty_files);
- retval = -ENOMEM;
- if (devpts_pty_new(tty->link))
+ retval = devpts_pty_new(tty->link);
+ if (retval)
goto out1;
check_tty_count(tty, "ptmx_open");