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acpi-power-meter: Don't leak ACPI error codes to userspace

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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>
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Darrick J. Wong 2009-10-21 18:01:37 -07:00 committed by Len Brown
parent 52a2b11caf
commit 22aecebfd9
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drivers/acpi/power_meter.c
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@ -294,7 +294,11 @@ static int set_acpi_trip(struct acpi_power_meter_resource *resource)
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,