linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] nvmet-file: fix nvmet_file

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Date:   Sat, 13 Jul 2019 14:10:04 -0600
From:   Logan Gunthorpe <logang@...tatee.com>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Sagi Grimberg <sagi@...mberg.me>,
        Chaitanya Kulkarni <chaitanya.kulkarni@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] nvmet-file: fix nvmet_file_flush() always returning an
 error



On 2019-07-13 1:26 a.m., Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 04:42:07PM -0600, Logan Gunthorpe wrote:
>> errno_to_nvme_status() doesn't take into account the case
>> when errno=0, all other use cases only call it if there is actually
>> an error.
> 
> Might it make more sense to handle 0 in errno_to_nvme_status to avoid
> future problems like this one as well?  That would also match the
> similar blk_to_nvme_status function better.

Sure, I'll send a v2 with that approach next week.

I had assumed that it was done this way for performance reasons so I
followed the way it was done in the other call sites.

Logan