Re: [PATCH] PCI: return correct value when writing to the "reset"attribute

From: Michael S. Tsirkin
Date: Tue May 11 2010 - 07:03:06 EST


On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 11:44:54AM +0200, Michal Schmidt wrote:
> A successful write() to the "reset" sysfs attribute should return the
> number of bytes written, not 0. Otherwise userspace (bash) retries the
> write over and over again.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
>
> drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c | 7 ++++++-
> 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> index fad9398..ba88a2f 100644
> --- a/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/pci/pci-sysfs.c
> @@ -960,7 +960,12 @@ static ssize_t reset_store(struct device *dev,
>
> if (val != 1)
> return -EINVAL;
> - return pci_reset_function(pdev);
> +
> + result = pci_reset_function(pdev);
> + if (result < 0)
> + return result;
> +
> + return count;
> }
>
> static struct device_attribute reset_attr = __ATTR(reset, 0200, NULL, reset_store);
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