On Fri, Feb 12, 2021 at 11:05:05AM +0100, Jan Kara wrote:
> On Fri 12-02-21 09:38:35, Sascha Hauer wrote:
> > On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 03:38:13PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > > + if (!mountpoint)
> > > > + return -ENODEV;
> > > > +
> > > > + ret = user_path_at(AT_FDCWD, mountpoint,
> > > > + LOOKUP_FOLLOW | LOOKUP_AUTOMOUNT,
> > > > &mountpath);
> > >
> > > user_path_at handles an empty path, although you'll get EFAULT instead.
> > > Do we care about the -ENODEV here?
> >
> > The quotactl manpage documents EFAULT as error code for invalid addr or
> > special argument, so we really should return -EFAULT here.
> >
> > Existing quotactl gets this wrong as well:
> >
> > if (!special) {
> > if (cmds == Q_SYNC)
> > return quota_sync_all(type);
> > return -ENODEV;
> > }
> >
> > Should we fix this or is there userspace code that is confused by a changed
> > return value?
>
> I'd leave the original quotactl(2) as is. There's no strong reason to risk
> breaking some userspace. For the new syscall, I agree we can just
> standardize the return value, there ENODEV makes even less sense since
> there's no device in that call.
Ok, will do. Who can pick this series up? Anyone else I need to Cc next
round?
Sascha
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