[3.5.y.z extended stable] Patch "alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 116e2a25692e74865a994f6909f816753b22423b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2013 17:33:16 -0400
Subject: alarmtimer: return EINVAL instead of ENOTSUPP if rtcdev doesn't exist

commit 98d6f4dd84a134d942827584a3c5f67ffd8ec35f upstream.

Fedora Ruby maintainer reported latest Ruby doesn't work on Fedora Rawhide
on ARM. (http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9008)

Because of, commit 1c6b39ad3f (alarmtimers: Return -ENOTSUPP if no
RTC device is present) intruduced to return ENOTSUPP when
clock_get{time,res} can't find a RTC device. However this is incorrect.

First, ENOTSUPP isn't exported to userland (ENOTSUP or EOPNOTSUP are the
closest userland equivlents).

Second, Posix and Linux man pages agree that clock_gettime and
clock_getres should return EINVAL if clk_id argument is invalid.
While the arugment that the clockid is valid, but just not supported
on this hardware could be made, this is just a technicality that
doesn't help userspace applicaitons, and only complicates error
handling.

Thus, this patch changes the code to use EINVAL.

Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec at gmail.com>
Reported-by: Vit Ondruch <v.ondruch at tiscali.cz>
Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro at jp.fujitsu.com>
[jstultz: Tweaks to commit message to include full rational]
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/time/alarmtimer.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
index aa27d39..2cfe9a5 100644
--- a/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
+++ b/kernel/time/alarmtimer.c
@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_getres(const clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
 	clockid_t baseid = alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)].base_clockid;

 	if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev())
-		return -ENOTSUPP;
+		return -EINVAL;

 	return hrtimer_get_res(baseid, tp);
 }
@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ static int alarm_clock_get(clockid_t which_clock, struct timespec *tp)
 	struct alarm_base *base = &alarm_bases[clock2alarm(which_clock)];

 	if (!alarmtimer_get_rtcdev())
-		return -ENOTSUPP;
+		return -EINVAL;

 	*tp = ktime_to_timespec(base->gettime());
 	return 0;
--
1.8.3.2