On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 02:36:38PM +0200, Patrik Jakobsson wrote: > On Wed, Jul 08, 2015 at 03:11:36AM +0300, Dmitry V. Levin wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 06, 2015 at 04:40:24PM +0200, Gabriel Laskar wrote: [...] > > > Anyway, SYS_FUNC(ioctl) is a bit complicated, and the handling of the > > > fallbacks on failure should be more generic. > > > > What would be useful is a way for "on entering" parsers to return > > "done with decoding" information to their callers. > > > > This could be implemented by or'ing return value in the current semantics > > with a flag with "done with decoding" meaning, e.g. RVAL_DONE. > > > > If an ioctl parser returned RVAL_DONE, this would tell SYS_FUNC(ioctl) > > that the decoding is finished but fallback decoding is needed, while > > RVAL_DONE+1 would mean that the decoding is finished and no fallback > > decoding is needed. > > I like that idea but isn't the current return semantics already good enough > for that? The problem right now is that we ignore the return value from > ioctl_decode() "on entering".
After commit v4.10-104-g204c2bc we no longer ignore the return value from ioctl_decode() "on entering". -- ldv
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