Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] RDMA/srp: Fix error return code in srp_parse_options()

[wangyufen]

在 2022/12/1 2:00, Bart Van Assche 写道:
> On 11/29/22 19:31, wangyufen wrote:
> > I'm so sorry for the poor patch description. Is the following 
> > description OK?
> >
> > In the previous iteration of the while loop, "ret" may have been 
> > assigned a value of 0, so the error return code -EINVAL may have been 
> > incorrectly set to 0.
> > Also, investigate each case separately as Andy suggessted. If the help 
> > function match_int() fails, the error code is returned, which is 
> > different from the warning information printed before. If the parsing 
> > result token is incorrect, "-EINVAL" is returned and the original 
> > warning information is printed.
>
> Please reply below instead of above. See also 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style.

Thanks, that's helpful.

> Regarding your question: not logging an error message if user input is 
> rejected is unfriendly to the user. I think it's better to keep the 
> behavior of reporting an error if a match* function fails instead of 
> reporting in the patch description that the behavior has changed.

> Thanks,
>
> Bart.