[PATCH] driver core: driver_bind attribute returns incorrect value
The manual driver <-> device binding attribute in sysfs doesn't return
the correct value on failure or success of driver_probe_device.
driver_probe_device returns 1 on success (the driver accepted the
device) or 0 on probe failure (when the driver didn't accept the
device but no real error occured). However, the attribute can't just
return 0 or 1, it must return the number of bytes consumed from buf
or an error value. Returning 0 indicates to userspace that nothing
was written (even though the kernel has tried to do the bind/probe and
failed). Returning 1 indicates that only one character was accepted in
which case userspace will re-try the write with a partial string.
A more correct version of driver_bind would return count (to indicate
the entire string was consumed) when driver_probe_device returns 1
and -ENODEV when driver_probe_device returns 0. This patch makes that
change.
Signed-off-by: Ryan Wilson <hap9@epoch.ncsc.mil>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 48718b7..76656ac 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -188,6 +188,11 @@
up(&dev->sem);
if (dev->parent)
up(&dev->parent->sem);
+
+ if (err > 0) /* success */
+ err = count;
+ else if (err == 0) /* driver didn't accept device */
+ err = -ENODEV;
}
put_device(dev);
put_bus(bus);