Hi David, On 8/24/22 6:19 PM, David Howells wrote: > /* fail OPEN request if copen format is invalid */ > ret = kstrtol(psize, 0, &size); > if (ret) { > req->error = ret; > goto out; > } > > /* fail OPEN request if daemon reports an error */ > if (size < 0) { > if (!IS_ERR_VALUE(size)) > ret = size = -EINVAL; > req->error = size; > goto out; > } > > Should ret get set to the error in size? The user daemon completes the OPEN request by replying with the "copen" command. The format of "copen" is like: "copen <id>,<cache_size>", where <cache_size> specifies the size of the backing file. Besides, <cache_size> is also reused for specifying the error code when the user daemon thinks it should fail the OPEN request. In this case, the OPEN request will fail, while the copen command (i.e. cachefiles_ondemand_copen()) shall return 0, since the format of the input "copen" command has no problem at all. After all, the error code inside <cache_size> is specified by the user daemon itself, and the fact that the OPEN request will fail totally lies in the expectation of the user daemon. On the other hand, cachefiles_ondemand_copen() needs to return error code when the user daemon specifies the "copen" command in a wrong format, e.g. specifying an invalid error code in <cache_size>. This is exactly what this patch fixes. -- Thanks, Jingbo