efivarfs: Never return ENOENT from firmware again
authorLingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Fri, 10 May 2013 10:29:21 +0000 (18:29 +0800)
committerMatt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Mon, 13 May 2013 19:12:10 +0000 (20:12 +0100)
Previously in 1fa7e69 efi_status_to_err() translated firmware status
EFI_NOT_FOUND to -EIO instead of -ENOENT for efivarfs operations to
avoid confusion. After refactoring in e14ab23, it is also used in other
places where the translation may be unnecessary.

So move the translation to efivarfs specific code. Also return EOF
for reading zero-length files, which is what users would expect.

Cc: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@redhat.com>
Cc: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: Lee, Chun-Yi <jlee@suse.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Lingzhu Xiang <lxiang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
fs/efivarfs/file.c

index bfb5315..8dd524f 100644 (file)
@@ -44,8 +44,11 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_write(struct file *file,
 
        bytes = efivar_entry_set_get_size(var, attributes, &datasize,
                                          data, &set);
-       if (!set && bytes)
+       if (!set && bytes) {
+               if (bytes == -ENOENT)
+                       bytes = -EIO;
                goto out;
+       }
 
        if (bytes == -ENOENT) {
                drop_nlink(inode);
@@ -76,7 +79,14 @@ static ssize_t efivarfs_file_read(struct file *file, char __user *userbuf,
        int err;
 
        err = efivar_entry_size(var, &datasize);
-       if (err)
+
+       /*
+        * efivarfs represents uncommitted variables with
+        * zero-length files. Reading them should return EOF.
+        */
+       if (err == -ENOENT)
+               return 0;
+       else if (err)
                return err;
 
        data = kmalloc(datasize + sizeof(attributes), GFP_KERNEL);