[PATCH] dev_ioctl should return -EINVAL for unknown ioctl insteadof -ENOTTY

From: Wang Sheng-Hui
Date: Thu Sep 01 2011 - 10:52:20 EST


The patch is against 3.1-rc3.

Signed-off-by: Wang Sheng-Hui <shhuiw@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/dev.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
index 17d67b5..de6033c 100644
--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -5092,7 +5092,7 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
/* Take care of Wireless Extensions */
if (cmd >= SIOCIWFIRST && cmd <= SIOCIWLAST)
return wext_handle_ioctl(net, &ifr, cmd, arg);
- return -ENOTTY;
+ return -EINVAL;
}
}

--
1.7.1
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