This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
braille-console: Fix value returned by _braille_console_setup
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git%3Ba=su...
The filename of the patch is: braille-console-fix-value-returned-by-_braille_console_setup.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.
From foo@baz Mon Mar 19 09:58:12 CET 2018
From: Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org Date: Sun, 26 Mar 2017 22:47:36 +0200 Subject: braille-console: Fix value returned by _braille_console_setup
From: Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org
[ Upstream commit 2ed2b8621be2708c0f6d61fe9841e9ad8b9753f0 ]
commit bbeddf52adc1 ("printk: move braille console support into separate braille.[ch] files") introduced _braille_console_setup() to outline the braille initialization code. There was however some confusion over the value it was supposed to return. commit 2cfe6c4ac7ee ("printk: Fix return of braille_register_console()") tried to fix it but failed to.
This fixes and documents the returned value according to the use in printk.c: non-zero return means a parsing error, and thus this console configuration should be ignored.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org Cc: Aleksey Makarov aleksey.makarov@linaro.org Cc: Joe Perches joe@perches.com Cc: Ming Lei ming.lei@canonical.com Cc: Steven Rostedt rostedt@goodmis.org Acked-by: Petr Mladek pmladek@suse.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin alexander.levin@microsoft.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- kernel/printk/braille.c | 15 ++++++++------- kernel/printk/braille.h | 13 ++++++++++--- 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
--- a/kernel/printk/braille.c +++ b/kernel/printk/braille.c @@ -2,12 +2,13 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h> #include <linux/console.h> +#include <linux/errno.h> #include <linux/string.h>
#include "console_cmdline.h" #include "braille.h"
-char *_braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options) +int _braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options) { if (!strncmp(*str, "brl,", 4)) { *brl_options = ""; @@ -15,14 +16,14 @@ char *_braille_console_setup(char **str, } else if (!strncmp(*str, "brl=", 4)) { *brl_options = *str + 4; *str = strchr(*brl_options, ','); - if (!*str) + if (!*str) { pr_err("need port name after brl=\n"); - else - *((*str)++) = 0; - } else - return NULL; + return -EINVAL; + } + *((*str)++) = 0; + }
- return *str; + return 0; }
int --- a/kernel/printk/braille.h +++ b/kernel/printk/braille.h @@ -9,7 +9,14 @@ braille_set_options(struct console_cmdli c->brl_options = brl_options; }
-char * +/* + * Setup console according to braille options. + * Return -EINVAL on syntax error, 0 on success (or no braille option was + * actually given). + * Modifies str to point to the serial options + * Sets brl_options to the parsed braille options. + */ +int _braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options);
int @@ -25,10 +32,10 @@ braille_set_options(struct console_cmdli { }
-static inline char * +static inline int _braille_console_setup(char **str, char **brl_options) { - return NULL; + return 0; }
static inline int
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org are
queue-4.4/braille-console-fix-value-returned-by-_braille_console_setup.patch queue-4.4/staging-speakup-replace-bug_on-with-warn_on.patch