[PATCH] erofs: add error log in erofs_fc_parse_param
Gao Xiang
hsiangkao at linux.alibaba.com
Sat Jan 18 19:45:26 AEDT 2025
On 2025/1/18 09:25, Ian Kent wrote:
> On 18/1/25 08:45, Ian Kent wrote:
>> On 17/1/25 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.
>>
>> I'm pretty sure than the vfs deals with reporting unknown options
>>
>> and returns -EINVAL already.
>>
>>
>> I think the caller oferofs_fc_parse_param() is vfs_parse_fs_param()
>>
>> and for an -ENOPARAM return will ultimately do this:
>>
>> return invalf(fc, "%s: Unknown parameter '%s'", fc->fs_type->name, param->key);
>>
>> which does this.
>>
>> The thing about this is the mount API macro deals with (or it should,
>>
>> although I'm not sure that's completely sorted out yet) logging the
>>
>> message to the console log as well as possibly making it available to
>>
>> mount api system calls. I'm pretty sure this change will prevent the
>>
>> error message being available for mount api system calls to retrieve.
>
> Actually no, removing the default switch branch does look like the right thing
>
> to do, my mistake. The call to fs_parse() will return -NOPARAM so the
>
> switch doesn't need to handle that case.
>
>
> Oops!
Yeah, actually dead code..
Thanks,
Gao Xiang
>
>>
>> Ian
>>
>>>
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