netdev - Re: [PATCH v2] sunrpc: Change ret code of xdr_stream_decode_opaque

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Message-ID: <175284845618.1668826.1570213345042161150.b4-ty@oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2025 10:21:36 -0400
From: Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org>
To: Jeff Layton <jlayton@...nel.org>,
	NeilBrown <neil@...wn.name>,
	Olga Kornievskaia <okorniev@...hat.com>,
	Dai Ngo <Dai.Ngo@...cle.com>,
	Tom Talpey <tom@...pey.com>,
	Trond Myklebust <trondmy@...nel.org>,
	Anna Schumaker <anna@...nel.org>,
	"David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
	Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>,
	Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>,
	Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>,
	Sergey Bashirov <sergeybashirov@...il.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] sunrpc: Change ret code of xdr_stream_decode_opaque_fixed

From: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>

On Fri, 18 Jul 2025 11:09:56 +0300, Sergey Bashirov wrote:
> Since the XDR field is fixed in size, the caller already knows how many
> bytes were decoded, on success. Thus, xdr_stream_decode_opaque_fixed()
> doesn't need to return that value. And, xdr_stream_decode_u32 and _u64
> both return zero on success.
> 
> 

Applied to nfsd-testing, thanks!

[1/1] sunrpc: Change ret code of xdr_stream_decode_opaque_fixed
      commit: 4f48fa0301a4eceee070baa5ca0f0bb470a2a54e

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Chuck Lever