Re: [PATCH v5 10/13] xen/pvcalls: implement recvmsg

From: Stefano Stabellini
Date: Thu Oct 19 2017 - 21:38:55 EST


On Tue, 17 Oct 2017, Boris Ostrovsky wrote:
> > +
> > +int pvcalls_front_recvmsg(struct socket *sock, struct msghdr *msg, size_t len,
> > + int flags)
> > +{
> > + struct pvcalls_bedata *bedata;
> > + int ret;
> > + struct sock_mapping *map;
> > +
> > + if (flags & (MSG_CMSG_CLOEXEC|MSG_ERRQUEUE|MSG_OOB|MSG_TRUNC))
> > + return -EOPNOTSUPP;
> > +
> > + pvcalls_enter();
> > + if (!pvcalls_front_dev) {
> > + pvcalls_exit();
> > + return -ENOTCONN;
> > + }
> > + bedata = dev_get_drvdata(&pvcalls_front_dev->dev);
> > +
> > + map = (struct sock_mapping *) sock->sk->sk_send_head;
> > + if (!map) {
> > + pvcalls_exit();
> > + return -ENOTSOCK;
> > + }
> > +
> > + mutex_lock(&map->active.in_mutex);
> > + if (len > XEN_FLEX_RING_SIZE(PVCALLS_RING_ORDER))
> > + len = XEN_FLEX_RING_SIZE(PVCALLS_RING_ORDER);
> > +
> > + while (!(flags & MSG_DONTWAIT) && !pvcalls_front_read_todo(map)) {
> > + wait_event_interruptible(map->active.inflight_conn_req,
> > + pvcalls_front_read_todo(map));
> > + }
> > + ret = __read_ring(map->active.ring, &map->active.data,
> > + &msg->msg_iter, len, flags);
> > +
> > + if (ret > 0)
> > + notify_remote_via_irq(map->active.irq);
> > + if (ret == 0)
> > + ret = -EAGAIN;
>
> Why not 0? The manpage says:
>
> EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK
> The socket is marked nonblocking and the receive
> operation would block, or a receive timeout
> had been set and the timeout expired before data was
> received. POSIX.1 allows either error to
> be returned for this case, and does not require these
> constants to have the same value, so a
> portable application should check for both possibilities.
>
>
> I don't think either of these conditions is true here.
>
> (Again, should have noticed this earlier, sorry)

In case the socket is MSG_DONTWAIT, then we should return -EAGAIN here.
However, it is true that if the socket is not MSG_DONTWAIT, then
returning 0 would make more sense.

So I'll do:

if (ret == 0)
ret = (flags & MSG_DONTWAIT) ? -EAGAIN : 0;