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authorMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-09-18 15:05:42 +0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>2017-10-11 19:57:47 +0300
commitda5516b5e81d45a96291823620f6c820178dc055 (patch)
tree44972ef069f759be8580d9aac09184da60e4c55e /drivers/media/dvb-core
parentceb22c8eeecaf51f88a49202d00ea599b9e15477 (diff)
downloadlinux-da5516b5e81d45a96291823620f6c820178dc055.tar.xz
media: dvb_frontend: better document the -EPERM condition
Two readonly ioctls can't be allowed if the frontend device is opened in read only mode. Explain why. Reviewed by: Shuah Khan <shuahkh@osg.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media/dvb-core')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c20
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
index 45d0d488dfcb..b19f40be0ab2 100644
--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
@@ -1923,9 +1923,23 @@ static int dvb_frontend_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd, void *parg)
return -ENODEV;
}
- if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY &&
- (_IOC_DIR(cmd) != _IOC_READ || cmd == FE_GET_EVENT ||
- cmd == FE_DISEQC_RECV_SLAVE_REPLY)) {
+ /*
+ * If the frontend is opened in read-only mode, only the ioctls
+ * that don't interfere with the tune logic should be accepted.
+ * That allows an external application to monitor the DVB QoS and
+ * statistics parameters.
+ *
+ * That matches all _IOR() ioctls, except for two special cases:
+ * - FE_GET_EVENT is part of the tuning logic on a DVB application;
+ * - FE_DISEQC_RECV_SLAVE_REPLY is part of DiSEqC 2.0
+ * setup
+ * So, those two ioctls should also return -EPERM, as otherwise
+ * reading from them would interfere with a DVB tune application
+ */
+ if ((file->f_flags & O_ACCMODE) == O_RDONLY
+ && (_IOC_DIR(cmd) != _IOC_READ
+ || cmd == FE_GET_EVENT
+ || cmd == FE_DISEQC_RECV_SLAVE_REPLY)) {
up(&fepriv->sem);
return -EPERM;
}