Rationalize fasync return values

Most fasync implementations do something like:

     return fasync_helper(...);

But fasync_helper() will return a positive value at times - a feature used
in at least one place.  Thus, a number of other drivers do:

     err = fasync_helper(...);
     if (err < 0)
             return err;
     return 0;

In the interests of consistency and more concise code, it makes sense to
map positive return values onto zero where ->fasync() is called.

Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/fs/fcntl.c b/fs/fcntl.c
index 431bb645927..d865ca66ccb 100644
--- a/fs/fcntl.c
+++ b/fs/fcntl.c
@@ -184,6 +184,8 @@ static int setfl(int fd, struct file * filp, unsigned long arg)
 		error = filp->f_op->fasync(fd, filp, (arg & FASYNC) != 0);
 		if (error < 0)
 			goto out;
+		if (error > 0)
+			error = 0;
 	}
 	spin_lock(&filp->f_lock);
 	filp->f_flags = (arg & SETFL_MASK) | (filp->f_flags & ~SETFL_MASK);