[PATCH 3/8] tty: fix return value for unsupported termiox ioctls

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Wed Apr 07 2021 - 05:52:34 EST


Drivers should return -ENOTTY ("Inappropriate I/O control operation")
when an ioctl isn't supported, while -EINVAL is used for invalid
arguments.

Support for termiox was added by commit 1d65b4a088de ("tty: Add
termiox") in 2008 but no driver support ever followed and it was
recently ripped out by commit e0efb3168d34 ("tty: Remove dead termiox
code").

Fix the return value for the unsupported termiox ioctls, which have
always returned -EINVAL, by explicitly returning -ENOTTY rather than
removing them completely and falling back to the default unrecognised-
ioctl handling.

Fixes: 1d65b4a088de ("tty: Add termiox")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c b/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
index deffaefcf41d..420e7678330f 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/tty_ioctl.c
@@ -773,8 +773,8 @@ int tty_mode_ioctl(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *file,
case TCSETX:
case TCSETXW:
case TCSETXF:
- return -EINVAL;
-#endif
+ return -ENOTTY;
+#endif
case TIOCGSOFTCAR:
copy_termios(real_tty, &kterm);
ret = put_user((kterm.c_cflag & CLOCAL) ? 1 : 0,
--
2.26.3