Re: [RFC PATCH v3 2/4] vsock/vmci: convert VMCI error code to -ENOMEM on receive

From: Arseniy Krasnov
Date: Fri Mar 31 2023 - 04:01:17 EST




On 31.03.2023 10:12, Stefano Garzarella wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2023 at 11:18:36PM +0300, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 30.03.2023 23:13, Arseniy Krasnov wrote:
>>> This adds conversion of VMCI specific error code to general -ENOMEM. It
>>> is needed, because af_vsock.c passes error value returned from transport
>>> to the user, which does not expect to get VMCI_ERROR_* values.
>>
>> @Stefano, I have some doubts about this commit message, as it says "... af_vsock.c
>> passes error value returned from transport to the user ...", but this
>> behaviour is implemented only in the next patch. Is it ok, if both patches
>> are in a single patchset?
>
> Yes indeed it is not clear. In my opinion we can do one of these 2
> things:
>
> 1. Update the message, where we can say that this is a preparation patch
>    for the next changes where af_vsock.c will directly return transport
>    values to the user, so we need to return an errno.
>
> 2. Merge this patch and patch 3 in a single patch.
>
> Both are fine for my point of view, take your choice ;-)

Ok! Thanks for this!

Thanks, Arseniy

>
> Thanks,
> Stefano
>