[PATCH] erofs: add error log in erofs_fc_parse_param

Chen Linxuan chenlinxuan at uniontech.com
Fri Jan 17 20:50:47 AEDT 2025


On Fri, 2025-01-17 at 17:28 +0800, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Linxuan,
> 
> On 2025/1/17 16:52, Chen Linxuan wrote:
> > While reading erofs code, I notice that `erofs_fc_parse_param` will
> > return -ENOPARAM, which means that erofs do not support this option,
> > without report anything when `fs_parse` return an unknown `opt`.
> > 
> > But if an option is unknown to erofs, I mean that option not in
> > `erofs_fs_parameters` at all, `fs_parse` will return -ENOPARAM,
> > which means that `erofs_fs_parameters` should has returned earlier.
> > 
> > Entering `default` means `fs_parse` return something we unexpected.
> > I am not sure about it but I think we should return -EINVAL here,
> > just like `xfs_fs_parse_param`.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Chen Linxuan <chenlinxuan at uniontech.com>
> 
> I think the default branch is actually deadcode here, see
> erofs_fc_parse_param() -> fs_parse() -> fs_lookup_key() -> -ENOPARAM
> 
> then vfs_parse_fs_param() will show "Unknown parameter".
> 
> Maybe we could just kill `default:` branch...

ext4 do not have a `default:` branch, but xfs return -EINVAL.

I think `default:` branch can report error when `fs_parse` or
`erofs_fs_parameters` goes wrong.

But I am OK to kill `default:` branch.

> 
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
> 
> 
> > ---
> >   fs/erofs/super.c | 3 ++-
> >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/fs/erofs/super.c b/fs/erofs/super.c
> > index 1fc5623c3a4d..67fc4c1deb98 100644
> > --- a/fs/erofs/super.c
> > +++ b/fs/erofs/super.c
> > @@ -509,7 +509,8 @@ static int erofs_fc_parse_param(struct fs_context *fc,
> >   #endif
> >   		break;
> >   	default:
> > -		return -ENOPARAM;
> > +		errorfc(fc, "%s option not supported", param->key);
> > +		return -EINVAL;
> >   	}
> >   	return 0;
> >   }
> 
> 
> 



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