commit 70f2817a43c89b784dc2ec3d06ba5bf3064f8235
author Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net> Fri Apr 29 01:27:34 2005 -0500
committer Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Mon Jun 20 15:15:03 2005 -0700
tree 210bbd16599d4e402051e4ec30c82e70b8b427ef
parent 6c1852a08e444a2e66367352a99c0e93c8bf3e97

[PATCH] sysfs: (rest) if show/store is missing return -EIO

sysfs: fix the rest of the kernel so if an attribute doesn't
       implement show or store method read/write will return
       -EIO instead of 0 or -EINVAL or -EPERM.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

kernel/params.c

diff --git a/kernel/params.c b/kernel/params.c
index 5513844..d586c35ef 100644
--- a/kernel/params.c
+++ b/kernel/params.c
@@ -629,7 +629,7 @@
 	mk = to_module_kobject(kobj);
 
 	if (!attribute->show)
-		return -EPERM;
+		return -EIO;
 
 	if (!try_module_get(mk->mod))
 		return -ENODEV;
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@
 	mk = to_module_kobject(kobj);
 
 	if (!attribute->store)
-		return -EPERM;
+		return -EIO;
 
 	if (!try_module_get(mk->mod))
 		return -ENODEV;