Messages in this thread | | | From | Masahiro Yamada <> | Date | Tue, 11 Jun 2019 06:09:55 +0900 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kobject: return -ENOSPC when add_uevent_var() fails |
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2019 at 2:47 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > On Wed, Jun 05, 2019 at 02:44:12AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote: > > This function never attempts to allocate memory, so returning -ENOMEM > > looks weird to me. The reason of the failure is there is no more space > > in the given kobj_uevent_env structure. > > > > No caller of this function relies on this functing returning a specific > > error code, so just change it to return -ENOSPC. The intended change, > > if any, is the error number displayed in log messages. > > > > Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> > > --- > > > > lib/kobject_uevent.c | 6 +++--- > > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > > > diff --git a/lib/kobject_uevent.c b/lib/kobject_uevent.c > > index 7998affa45d4..5ffd44bf4aad 100644 > > --- a/lib/kobject_uevent.c > > +++ b/lib/kobject_uevent.c > > @@ -647,7 +647,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kobject_uevent); > > * @env: environment buffer structure > > * @format: printf format for the key=value pair > > * > > - * Returns 0 if environment variable was added successfully or -ENOMEM > > + * Returns 0 if environment variable was added successfully or -ENOSPC > > * if no space was available. > > */ > > int add_uevent_var(struct kobj_uevent_env *env, const char *format, ...) > > @@ -657,7 +657,7 @@ int add_uevent_var(struct kobj_uevent_env *env, const char *format, ...) > > > > if (env->envp_idx >= ARRAY_SIZE(env->envp)) { > > WARN(1, KERN_ERR "add_uevent_var: too many keys\n"); > > - return -ENOMEM; > > + return -ENOSPC; > > As Rafael says, changing this for no good reason is not a good idea, > sorry. Let's live with it as-is unless you can show some place where > this specific error value is causing problems.
Didn't you see WARN() above the return code? I rephrased the commit log for clarification in v2.
Thanks.
-- Best Regards Masahiro Yamada
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