[PATCH] inotify: read return val fix
Fix for inotify read bug (bugzilla.kernel.org #6999)
Problem Description:
When reading from an inotify device with an insufficient sized buffer, read(2)
will return 0 with no errno set. This is because of an logically incorrect
action from the user program thus should return an more logical value. My
suggestion is return -EINVAL as for bind(2).
This patch is based on the proposal from Ryan <wolf0403@hotmail.com>, and
feedback from John McCutchan <john@johnmccutchan.com>.
Return -EINVAL if we have not passed in enough buffer space to read a single
inotify event, rather than 0 which indicates that there is nothing to read.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: "John McCutchan" <john@johnmccutchan.com>
Cc: Ryan <wolf0403@hotmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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