From da5516b5e81d45a96291823620f6c820178dc055 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 08:05:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --- drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c | 20 +++++++++++++++++--- 1 file 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; } -- 2.11.0