kobject: return error code if writing /sys/.../uevent fails

[ Upstream commit df44b479654f62b478c18ee4d8bc4e9f897a9844 ]

Propagate error code back to userspace if writing the /sys/.../uevent
file fails. Before, the write operation always returned with success,
even if we failed to recognize the input string or if we failed to
generate the uevent itself.

With the error codes properly propagated back to userspace, we are
able to react in userspace accordingly by not assuming and awaiting
a uevent that is not delivered.

Signed-off-by: Peter Rajnoha <prajnoha@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/base/bus.c b/drivers/base/bus.c
index 585e2e1c9c8f..e06a57936cc9 100644
--- a/drivers/base/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/base/bus.c
@@ -614,8 +614,10 @@ static void remove_probe_files(struct bus_type *bus)
 static ssize_t uevent_store(struct device_driver *drv, const char *buf,
 			    size_t count)
 {
-	kobject_synth_uevent(&drv->p->kobj, buf, count);
-	return count;
+	int rc;
+
+	rc = kobject_synth_uevent(&drv->p->kobj, buf, count);
+	return rc ? rc : count;
 }
 static DRIVER_ATTR_WO(uevent);
 
@@ -831,8 +833,10 @@ static void klist_devices_put(struct klist_node *n)
 static ssize_t bus_uevent_store(struct bus_type *bus,
 				const char *buf, size_t count)
 {
-	kobject_synth_uevent(&bus->p->subsys.kobj, buf, count);
-	return count;
+	int rc;
+
+	rc = kobject_synth_uevent(&bus->p->subsys.kobj, buf, count);
+	return rc ? rc : count;
 }
 static BUS_ATTR(uevent, S_IWUSR, NULL, bus_uevent_store);