On Thu, Mar 06, 2025 at 05:43:24PM +0530, Meet Soni wrote: > @@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ int block_writer_add(struct block_writer *w, struct reftable_record *rec) > int err; > > err = reftable_record_key(rec, &w->scratch); > - if (err < 0) > + if (err < 0) { > goto done; > + } > > if (!w->scratch.len) { > err = REFTABLE_API_ERROR; This change probably shouldn't be here. Our style guide mentions that we prefer to not have curly braces around single-line statements. > @@ -126,14 +127,14 @@ int block_writer_add(struct block_writer *w, struct reftable_record *rec) > n = reftable_encode_key(&is_restart, out, last, w->scratch, > reftable_record_val_type(rec)); > if (n < 0) { > - err = -1; > + err = n; > goto done; > } > string_view_consume(&out, n); > > n = reftable_record_encode(rec, out, w->hash_size); > if (n < 0) { > - err = -1; > + err = n; > goto done; > } > string_view_consume(&out, n); Okay. `reftable_encode_key()` right now only knows to return generic errors, but you fix that further down, and you also adapt `reftable_record_encode()`. > diff --git a/reftable/record.c b/reftable/record.c > index 8919df8a4d..5523804a0c 100644 > --- a/reftable/record.c > +++ b/reftable/record.c > @@ -148,18 +148,18 @@ int reftable_encode_key(int *restart, struct string_view dest, > uint64_t suffix_len = key.len - prefix_len; > int n = put_var_int(&dest, prefix_len); > if (n < 0) > - return -1; > + return REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR; > string_view_consume(&dest, n); > > *restart = (prefix_len == 0); > > n = put_var_int(&dest, suffix_len << 3 | (uint64_t)extra); > if (n < 0) > - return -1; > + return REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR; > string_view_consume(&dest, n); > > if (dest.len < suffix_len) > - return -1; > + return REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR; > memcpy(dest.buf, key.buf + prefix_len, suffix_len); > string_view_consume(&dest, suffix_len); > Makes sense. > @@ -1144,14 +1144,20 @@ static struct reftable_record_vtable reftable_index_record_vtable = { > > int reftable_record_key(struct reftable_record *rec, struct reftable_buf *dest) > { > - return reftable_record_vtable(rec)->key(reftable_record_data(rec), dest); > + int key_len = reftable_record_vtable(rec)->key(reftable_record_data(rec), dest); > + if (key_len < 0) > + return REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR; > + return key_len; > } This here is incorrect. We don't know why the `->key()` function has failed, so we shouldn't assume `TOO_BIG_ERROR`. We'd have to vet all the implementations of that function and then should bubble up their respective error codes. > int reftable_record_encode(struct reftable_record *rec, struct string_view dest, > uint32_t hash_size) > { > - return reftable_record_vtable(rec)->encode(reftable_record_data(rec), > + int encode_len = reftable_record_vtable(rec)->encode(reftable_record_data(rec), > dest, hash_size); > + if (encode_len < 0) > + return REFTABLE_ENTRY_TOO_BIG_ERROR; > + return encode_len; > } > > int reftable_record_copy_from(struct reftable_record *rec, Same remark here. Thanks! Patrick