linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kobject: return -ENOSPC when add_uevent

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Date:   Tue, 4 Jun 2019 22:50:54 +0200
From:   "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kobject: return -ENOSPC when add_uevent_var() fails

On Tue, Jun 4, 2019 at 8:00 PM Masahiro Yamada
<yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com> wrote:
>
> This function never attempts to allocate memory, so returning -ENOMEM
> looks weird to me.

And why is the "looks weird to me" a good enough reason for making
changes like this?

The existing behavior is known and documented AFAICS and is it really
so confusing?

> 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@...ionext.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;
>         }
>
>         va_start(args, format);
> @@ -668,7 +668,7 @@ int add_uevent_var(struct kobj_uevent_env *env, const char *format, ...)
>
>         if (len >= (sizeof(env->buf) - env->buflen)) {
>                 WARN(1, KERN_ERR "add_uevent_var: buffer size too small\n");
> -               return -ENOMEM;
> +               return -ENOSPC;
>         }
>
>         env->envp[env->envp_idx++] = &env->buf[env->buflen];
> --
> 2.17.1
>