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From: "Radim Krčmář" <rkrcmar@redhat.com>
To: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: Make init_rmode_tss() return 0 on success.
Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 01:44:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140919234440.GA2501@potion.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1410867505-5941-1-git-send-email-pbonzini@redhat.com>

2014-09-16 13:38+0200, Paolo Bonzini:
> In init_rmode_tss(), there two variables indicating the return
> value, r and ret, and it return 0 on error, 1 on success. The function
> is only called by vmx_set_tss_addr(), and r is redundant.
> 
> This patch removes the redundant variable, by making init_rmode_tss()
> return 0 on success, -errno on failure.

Which is going to propagate all the way to userpace through ioctl ...
is this change of A[PB]I acceptable?

Otherwise, -EFAULT seems to match unlikely problems better than -ENOMEM,
so if it is acceptable:  Reviewed-by: Radim Krčmář <rkrcmar@redhat.com>

  reply	other threads:[~2014-09-19 23:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-09-16 11:38 Paolo Bonzini
2014-09-19 23:44 ` Radim Krčmář [this message]
2014-09-22  9:17   ` Paolo Bonzini

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