Re: [PATCH 4/5 linux-next] udf: rename udf_get_filename()

[Fabian Frederick <fabf@skynet.be>]

> On 16 March 2015 at 08:46 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
>
>
>   Hi Fabian,
>
> On Sun 15-03-15 09:34:35, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> > > On 14 March 2015 at 07:52 Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue 10-03-15 21:44:34, Fabian Frederick wrote:
> > > > udf_readdir(), udf_find_entry() and udf_pc_to_char() use
> > > > udf_get_filename to obtain name length. Give that function
> > > > an appropriate name.
> > >   Hum, have you read what that function does? It actually converts the
> > >name
> > > to a different format and returns converted length. So your name is IMHO
> > > more confusing - it's as if sprintf() was called sprintf_length()... Not
> > > applied.
> >
> > Ok for the name but AFAICS there's still a problem with error management in
> > udf_get_filename().
> > We return 0 when not able to allocate filename and callsites don't seem to
> > relate the real problem.
>   Umm, we have three callsites:
> udf_readdir() - that skips the name if returned length is 0. Arguably we
>   should return error to userspace if we didn't emit any name yet. But then
>   all other error handling in that function should behave like that.
> udf_find_entry() - again we skip name if returned length is 0. Again we
>   could do better in error handling but that would require rewriting
>   udf_find_entry() to propagate errors up the stack instead of just
>   returning NULL.
> udf_pc_to_char() - This forgets to check and can return error. I'm happy to
>   take a fix for that (or I will write it unless you do).
>
> So returning error value < 0 for error from udf_get_filename() would look
> OK to me. But given how udf_readdir() and udf_find_entry() behave it won't
> help too much. But it's a step in the right direction. Thanks for spotting
> this.

Thanks a lot Jan. I hope the patch I just sent is ok.

Regards,
Fabian
>
>                                                               Honza
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