[3.19.y-ckt stable] Patch "Input: evdev - do not report errors form flush()" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    Input: evdev - do not report errors form flush()

to the linux-3.19.y-queue branch of the 3.19.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.19.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.19.8-ckt8.

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

For more information about the 3.19.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From 147f86f94c3e14ca54ff1aef210d536d9c1c7021 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 22:20:00 -0700
Subject: Input: evdev - do not report errors form flush()

commit eb38f3a4f6e86f8bb10a3217ebd85ecc5d763aae upstream.

We've got bug reports showing the old systemd-logind (at least
system-210) aborting unexpectedly, and this turned out to be because
of an invalid error code from close() call to evdev devices.  close()
is supposed to return only either EINTR or EBADFD, while the device
returned ENODEV.  logind was overreacting to it and decided to kill
itself when an unexpected error code was received.  What a tragedy.

The bad error code comes from flush fops, and actually evdev_flush()
returns ENODEV when device is disconnected or client's access to it is
revoked. But in these cases the fact that flush did not actually happen is
not an error, but rather normal behavior. For non-disconnected devices
result of flush is also not that interesting as there is no potential of
data loss and even if it fails application has no way of handling the
error. Because of that we are better off always returning success from
evdev_flush().

Also returning EINTR from flush()/close() is discouraged (as it is not
clear how application should handle this error), so let's stop taking
evdev->mutex interruptibly.

Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=939834
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai at suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/input/evdev.c | 13 ++++---------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/evdev.c b/drivers/input/evdev.c
index 18d4b2c..71caa7c 100644
--- a/drivers/input/evdev.c
+++ b/drivers/input/evdev.c
@@ -269,19 +269,14 @@ static int evdev_flush(struct file *file, fl_owner_t id)
 {
 	struct evdev_client *client = file->private_data;
 	struct evdev *evdev = client->evdev;
-	int retval;

-	retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&evdev->mutex);
-	if (retval)
-		return retval;
+	mutex_lock(&evdev->mutex);

-	if (!evdev->exist || client->revoked)
-		retval = -ENODEV;
-	else
-		retval = input_flush_device(&evdev->handle, file);
+	if (evdev->exist && !client->revoked)
+		input_flush_device(&evdev->handle, file);

 	mutex_unlock(&evdev->mutex);
-	return retval;
+	return 0;
 }

 static void evdev_free(struct device *dev)
--
1.9.1