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networking: inappropriate ioctl operation should return ENOTTY
authorLifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
Wed, 27 Apr 2011 22:04:51 +0000 (22:04 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Mon, 2 May 2011 22:41:29 +0000 (15:41 -0700)
ioctl() calls against a socket with an inappropriate ioctl operation
are incorrectly returning EINVAL rather than ENOTTY:

  [ENOTTY]
      Inappropriate I/O control operation.

BugLink: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33992
Signed-off-by: Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/dev.c

index c2ac599fa0f642f368025ababaa6c95476874c24..856b6ee9a1d5d5c1d4347d54048ac4f5d6bc73a1 100644 (file)
@@ -4773,7 +4773,7 @@ static int dev_ifsioc_locked(struct net *net, struct ifreq *ifr, unsigned int cm
                 * is never reached
                 */
                WARN_ON(1);
-               err = -EINVAL;
+               err = -ENOTTY;
                break;
 
        }
@@ -5041,7 +5041,7 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
                /* Set the per device memory buffer space.
                 * Not applicable in our case */
        case SIOCSIFLINK:
-               return -EINVAL;
+               return -ENOTTY;
 
        /*
         *      Unknown or private ioctl.
@@ -5062,7 +5062,7 @@ int dev_ioctl(struct net *net, unsigned int cmd, void __user *arg)
                /* Take care of Wireless Extensions */
                if (cmd >= SIOCIWFIRST && cmd <= SIOCIWLAST)
                        return wext_handle_ioctl(net, &ifr, cmd, arg);
-               return -EINVAL;
+               return -ENOTTY;
        }
 }