From 0a285317daf785424c884d1a7548705c60bc42cc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 16:17:20 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] printk: fix failure to return error in devkmsg_poll()

Error value got overwritten instantly.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/printk.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 1c8ca176458f..376914e2869d 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -601,7 +601,8 @@ static unsigned int devkmsg_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
 		/* return error when data has vanished underneath us */
 		if (user->seq < log_first_seq)
 			ret = POLLIN|POLLRDNORM|POLLERR|POLLPRI;
-		ret = POLLIN|POLLRDNORM;
+		else
+			ret = POLLIN|POLLRDNORM;
 	}
 	raw_spin_unlock_irq(&logbuf_lock);
 
-- 
2.30.2