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From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
To: "Tian, Kevin" <kevin.tian@intel.com>
Cc: "yong.wu@mediatek.com" <yong.wu@mediatek.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/6] iommu: Propagate ret for a potential soft failure EINVAL
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2022 13:39:30 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YyolAgYPPH7Pnap6@Asurada-Nvidia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BN9PR11MB5276A69368B6E06E2C86EA058C4C9@BN9PR11MB5276.namprd11.prod.outlook.com>

On Tue, Sep 20, 2022 at 06:50:22AM +0000, Tian, Kevin wrote:
> External email: Use caution opening links or attachments
> 
> 
> > From: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
> > Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2022 3:59 PM
> >
> > Following the new rules in include/linux/iommu.h kdocs, EINVAL now can be
> > used to indicate that domain and device are incompatible by a caller that
> > treats it as a soft failure and tries attaching to another domain.
> >
> > Either mtk_iommu or virtio driver has a place that returns a hard failure
> > instead of the return value from the function call, where an incompatible
> > errno EINVAL could potentially occur.
> 
> in both cases there is no EINVAL returned from the calling stack
> 
> IMHO error propagation is the right way even w/o talking about EINVAL
> otherwise we may miss ENOMEM etc.

OK. I changed to:

The mtk_iommu and virtio drivers have places in the ->attach_dev callback
functions that return hardcode errnos instead of the returned values, but
callers of these ->attach_dv callback functions may care. Propagate them
directly without the extra conversions.

> > Propagate the real return value to not miss a potential soft failure.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolin Chen <nicolinc@nvidia.com>
> 
> Apart from that comment,
> 
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Tian <kevin.tian@intel.com>

Added this too. Thanks!

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      reply	other threads:[~2022-09-20 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-15  7:53 [PATCH v3 0/6] Define EINVAL as device/domain incompatibility Nicolin Chen
2022-09-15  7:53 ` [PATCH v3 3/6] iommu: Add return value rules to attach_dev op and APIs Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:24   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 19:26     ` Nicolin Chen
2022-09-15  7:53 ` [PATCH v3 5/6] iommu: Use EINVAL for incompatible device/domain in ->attach_dev Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:38   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 18:06     ` Jason Gunthorpe
2022-09-21  8:14       ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-15  7:58 ` [PATCH v3 4/6] iommu: Regulate EINVAL in ->attach_dev callback functions Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:29   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 16:08     ` Nicolin Chen
2022-09-15  7:58 ` [PATCH v3 6/6] iommu: Propagate ret for a potential soft failure EINVAL Nicolin Chen
2022-09-20  6:50   ` Tian, Kevin
2022-09-20 20:39     ` Nicolin Chen [this message]

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