[PATCH 2/5] vfs: inappropriate ioctl operation on pipe/fifo should return ENOTTY

[Lifeng Sun]

ioctl() calls against a pipe or fifo with an inappropriate ioctl
operation are incorrectly returning EINVAL rather than ENOTTY:

  [ENOTTY]
      Inappropriate I/O control operation.

Signed-off-by: Lifeng Sun <lifongsun@xxxxxxxxx>
---
 fs/pipe.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pipe.c b/fs/pipe.c
index da42f7d..fe7ffe4 100644
--- a/fs/pipe.c
+++ b/fs/pipe.c
@@ -665,7 +665,7 @@ static long pipe_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd, unsigned long arg)
 
 			return put_user(count, (int __user *)arg);
 		default:
-			return -EINVAL;
+			return -ENOTTY;
 	}
 }
 
-- 
1.7.5.rc1

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