acpi-power-meter: Don't leak ACPI error codes to userspace
If the ACPI methods return an error code, we must return -EINVAL to userspace
to flag the error. Right now we pass the (positive) number right through,
which causes echo to keep writing bogus values.
Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
index e6bfd77..2ef7030 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
@@ -294,7 +294,11 @@
return -EINVAL;
}
- return data;
+ /* _PTP returns 0 on success, nonzero otherwise */
+ if (data)
+ return -EINVAL;
+
+ return 0;
}
static ssize_t set_trip(struct device *dev, struct device_attribute *devattr,