[PATCH] Staging: speakup: kobjects: Return the error type to caller

From: Saurabh Sengar
Date: Fri Dec 04 2015 - 09:42:55 EST


Inorder to notify the user that value is not successfuly set in sys
entry, error should be returned from store function instead of count

Signed-off-by: Saurabh Sengar <saurabh.truth@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
index fdfeb42..b3a83fb 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/speakup/kobjects.c
@@ -640,7 +640,8 @@ ssize_t spk_var_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,
len = E_INC;
else
len = E_SET;
- if (kstrtol(cp, 10, &value) == 0)
+ ret = kstrtol(cp, 10, &value);
+ if (!ret)
ret = spk_set_num_var(value, param, len);
else
pr_warn("overflow or parsing error has occurred");
@@ -688,6 +689,8 @@ ssize_t spk_var_store(struct kobject *kobj, struct kobj_attribute *attr,

if (ret == -ERESTART)
pr_info("%s reset to default value\n", param->name);
+ else if (ret < 0)
+ return ret;
return count;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(spk_var_store);
--
1.9.1

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