[PATCH]: Propagate error code from devpts_pty_new

From: sukadev
Date: Wed Apr 16 2008 - 18:15:38 EST


From: Sukadev Bhattiprolu <sukadev@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH]: 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@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tty_io.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: 2.6.25-rc8-mm2/drivers/char/tty_io.c
===================================================================
--- 2.6.25-rc8-mm2.orig/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2008-04-16 09:38:23.000000000 -0700
+++ 2.6.25-rc8-mm2/drivers/char/tty_io.c 2008-04-16 09:51:11.000000000 -0700
@@ -2835,8 +2835,8 @@ static int ptmx_open(struct inode *inode
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, "tty_open");
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