Re: [RFC PATCH v2 3/6] vsock/vmci: always return ENOMEM in case of error

[Arseniy Krasnov]

On 01.12.2022 18:14, Vishnu Dasa wrote:
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>> On Dec 1, 2022, at 1:30 AM, Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 05:08:06PM +0000, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
>>> From: Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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>>> This saves original behaviour from af_vsock.c - switch any error
>>> code returned from transport layer to ENOMEM.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Bobby Eshleman <bobby.eshleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Signed-off-by: Arseniy Krasnov <AVKrasnov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c | 9 ++++++++-
>>> 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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>> @Bryan @Vishnu what do you think about this patch?
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>> A bit of context:
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>> Before this series, the af_vsock core always returned ENOMEM to the user
>> if the transport failed to queue the packet.
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>> Now we are changing it by returning the transport error. So I think here
>> we want to preserve the previous behavior for vmci, but I don't know if
>> that's the right thing.
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> Agree with Stefano.  I don't think we need to preserve the previous
> behavior for vmci.
Good! I'll remove this patch from the next version

Thanks, Arseniy
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>> @Arseniy please in the next versions describe better in the commit
>> messages the reasons for these changes, so it is easier review for
>> others and also in the future by reading the commit message we can
>> understand the reason for the change.
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>> Thanks,
>> Stefano
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>>>
>>> diff --git a/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c b/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c
>>> index 842c94286d31..289a36a203a2 100644
>>> --- a/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c
>>> +++ b/net/vmw_vsock/vmci_transport.c
>>> @@ -1838,7 +1838,14 @@ static ssize_t vmci_transport_stream_enqueue(
>>>      struct msghdr *msg,
>>>      size_t len)
>>> {
>>> -      return vmci_qpair_enquev(vmci_trans(vsk)->qpair, msg, len, 0);
>>> +      int err;
>>> +
>>> +      err = vmci_qpair_enquev(vmci_trans(vsk)->qpair, msg, len, 0);
>>> +
>>> +      if (err < 0)
>>> +              err = -ENOMEM;
>>> +
>>> +      return err;
>>> }
>>>
>>> static s64 vmci_transport_stream_has_data(struct vsock_sock *vsk)
>>> --
>>> 2.25.1
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