From: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
To: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>,
stefanb@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, armbru@redhat.com, peterx@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] tpm_emulator: drop direct use of errno variable
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 09:51:51 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <332e3480-d86f-4782-8694-65b1e459eb58@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251106194126.569037-3-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
On 11/6/25 2:41 PM, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy wrote:
> The code tends to include errno into error messages after
> tpm_util_test_tpmdev() and tpm_emulator_ctrlcmd() calls.
>
> Both has error paths, where errno is not set, examples:
>
> tpm_emulator_ctrlcmd()
> qemu_chr_fe_write_all()
> qemu_chr_write()
> replay_char_write_event_load()
> ...
> *res = replay_get_dword();
> ...
>
> tpm_util_test_tpmdev()
> tpm_util_test()
> tpm_util_request()
> ...
> if (n != requestlen) {
> return -EFAULT;
> }
> ...
>
> Both doesn't document that they set errno.
>
> Let's drop these explicit usage of errno. If we need this information,
> it should be added to errp deeper in the stack.
>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Reviewed-by: Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-10 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-06 19:41 [PATCH 0/3] follow-up for tpm_emulator errp story Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-06 19:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] tpm_emulator: print error on error-ignore path Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-07 19:27 ` Stefan Berger
2025-11-06 19:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] tpm_emulator: drop direct use of errno variable Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-07 19:31 ` Stefan Berger
2025-11-07 19:53 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-08 9:35 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-10 14:51 ` Stefan Berger [this message]
2025-11-06 19:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] tpm_emulator: tpm_emulator_set_state_blobs(): move to boolean return Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-11-07 19:35 ` Stefan Berger
2025-11-07 8:39 ` [PATCH 0/3] follow-up for tpm_emulator errp story Markus Armbruster
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