Re: [PATCH v2] nfs: Return EINVAL rather than ERANGE for mount parse errors

[Krzysztof Kozlowski]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2020 at 03:55:09PM +0000, David Howells wrote:
> commit b9423c912b770e5b9e4228d90da92b6a69693d8e
> Author: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jan 17 15:37:46 2020 +0000
> 
>     nfs: Return EINVAL rather than ERANGE for mount parse errors
>     
>     Return EINVAL rather than ERANGE for mount parse errors as the userspace
>     mount command doesn't necessarily understand what to do with anything other
>     than EINVAL.
>     
>     The old code returned -ERANGE as an intermediate error that then get
>     converted to -EINVAL, whereas the new code returns -ERANGE.
>     
>     This was induced by passing minorversion=1 to a v4 mount where
>     CONFIG_NFS_V4_1 was disabled in the kernel build.
>     
>     Fixes: 68f65ef40e1e ("NFS: Convert mount option parsing to use functionality from fs_parser.h")
>     Reported-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> diff --git a/fs/nfs/fs_context.c b/fs/nfs/fs_context.c
> index 429315c011ae..74508ed9aeec 100644
> --- a/fs/nfs/fs_context.c
> +++ b/fs/nfs/fs_context.c
> @@ -769,8 +769,7 @@ static int nfs_fs_context_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc,
>  out_invalid_address:
>  	return nfs_invalf(fc, "NFS: Bad IP address specified");
>  out_of_bounds:
> -	nfs_invalf(fc, "NFS: Value for '%s' out of range", param->key);
> -	return -ERANGE;
> +	return nfs_invalf(fc, "NFS: Value for '%s' out of range", param->key);
>  }
>  
>  /*

Yes, the boards boots up, thanks!

Tested-by: Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx>

I did not run extensive tests but few boots show also 2-3 seconds faster
mount of NFS root (faster switch from initramfs to proper user-space
from NFS).

Best regards,
Krzysztof