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| author | Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> | 2009-10-22 01:01:37 (GMT) |
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| committer | Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> | 2009-11-05 17:25:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 22aecebfd9498c4779e5c5bed1d2d054bd99f7a4 (patch) | |
| tree | 8fbb3ee3c1e49fd8736acd391aaaca350cb27c54 | |
| parent | 52a2b11cafb1b14bacfc65a20966da5ba3a863e1 (diff) | |
| download | linux-fsl-qoriq-22aecebfd9498c4779e5c5bed1d2d054bd99f7a4.tar.xz | |
acpi-power-meter: Don't leak ACPI error codes to userspace
If the ACPI methods return an error code, we must return -EINVAL to userspace
to flag the error. Right now we pass the (positive) number right through,
which causes echo to keep writing bogus values.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/acpi/power_meter.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c index e6bfd77..2ef7030 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c @@ -294,7 +294,11 @@ static int set_acpi_trip(struct acpi_power_meter_resource *resource) return -EINVAL; } - return data; + /* _PTP returns 0 on success, nonzero otherwise */ + if (data) + return -EINVAL; + + return 0; } static ssize_t set_trip(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *devattr, |