linux/drivers/input
Takashi Iwai 638f310181 Input: evdev - do not report errors form flush()
[ Upstream commit eb38f3a4f6 ]

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
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
History 2015-10-07 10:12:48 -04:00
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gameport Input: joystick - use ktime for measuring timing 2014-09-11 23:41:18 -07:00
joystick Input: xpad - use proper endpoint type 2014-11-25 00:42:19 -08:00
keyboard Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2014-10-31 19:51:11 -07:00
misc Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2014-11-14 14:31:54 -08:00
mouse Input: synaptics - add min/max quirk for Lenovo S540 2015-07-20 21:12:44 -04:00
serio Input: i8042 - add noloop quirk for Medion Akoya E7225 (MD98857) 2015-02-05 22:36:04 -08:00
tablet Merge branch 'wacom' into next 2014-08-06 23:31:48 -07:00
touchscreen Input: usbtouchscreen - avoid unresponsive TSC-30 touch screen 2015-08-27 13:25:45 -04:00
apm-power.c Input: random formatting fixes 2012-08-21 22:29:49 -07:00
evbug.c Input: use pr_fmt and pr_<level> 2010-11-30 23:10:26 -08:00
evdev.c Input: evdev - do not report errors form flush() 2015-10-07 10:12:48 -04:00
ff-core.c Input: random formatting fixes 2012-08-21 22:29:49 -07:00
ff-memless.c Input: random formatting fixes 2012-08-21 22:29:49 -07:00
input-compat.c compat: Use COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME in the input subsystem 2012-02-20 12:48:47 -08:00
input-compat.h compat: Use COMPAT_USE_64BIT_TIME in the input subsystem 2012-02-20 12:48:47 -08:00
input-mt.c Input: fix used slots detection breakage 2014-08-25 14:59:48 -07:00
input-polldev.c Input: implement managed polled input devices 2014-05-14 16:40:04 -07:00
input.c Input: avoid negative input device numbers 2014-10-09 15:27:24 -07:00
joydev.c Input: fix use-after-free introduced with dynamic minor changes 2012-10-22 08:50:37 +03:00
Kconfig Input: mousedev - allow disabling even without CONFIG_EXPERT 2013-10-31 08:46:07 -07:00
Makefile Input: matrix-keymap - uninline and prepare for device tree support 2012-05-10 22:38:47 -07:00
matrix-keymap.c input: Export matrix_keypad_parse_of_params() 2013-04-19 00:31:13 +02:00
mousedev.c Input: mousedev - fix race when creating mixed device 2014-03-29 14:44:23 -07:00
sparse-keymap.c treewide: Fix typo in Documentation/DocBook 2014-02-19 14:58:17 +01:00