Re: [PATCH 1/1] block: add default clause for unsupported T10_PI types

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Jens,

> It's effectively the same thing, I really don't think we need (or should
> have) a BUG/BUG_ON for this condition. Just return an error?

> Just include a T10_PI_TYPE0_PROTECTION case in the switch, have it log
> and return an error. Add a comment on how it's impossible, if need be.
> I don't think it has to be more complicated than that.

The additional case statement is inside an iterator loop which would
bomb for Type 0 since there is no protection buffer to iterate
over. We'd presumably never reach that default: case before
dereferencing something bad.

t10_pi_verify() is a static function exclusively called by helpers that
pass in either 1 or 3 as argument. It seems kind of silly that we have
to jump through hoops to silence a compiler warning for this. I would
prefer a BUILD_BUG_ON(type == T10_PI_TYPE0_PROTECTION) at the top of the
function but that does not satisfy the -Wswitch logic either.

Anyway. Enough energy wasted on this. I'm OK with either the default:
case or Max' if statement approach. My objection is purely
wrt. introducing semantically incorrect and/or unreachable code to
silence compiler warnings. Seems backwards.

-- 
Martin K. Petersen	Oracle Linux Engineering



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