Change calling conventions for filldir_t

filldir_t instances (directory iterators callbacks) used to return 0 for
"OK, keep going" or -E... for "stop".  Note that it's *NOT* how the
error values are reported - the rules for those are callback-dependent
and ->iterate{,_shared}() instances only care about zero vs. non-zero
(look at emit_dir() and friends).

So let's just return bool ("should we keep going?") - it's less confusing
that way.  The choice between "true means keep going" and "true means
stop" is bikesheddable; we have two groups of callbacks -
	do something for everything in directory, until we run into problem
and
	find an entry in directory and do something to it.

The former tended to use 0/-E... conventions - -E<something> on failure.
The latter tended to use 0/1, 1 being "stop, we are done".
The callers treated anything non-zero as "stop", ignoring which
non-zero value did they get.

"true means stop" would be more natural for the second group; "true
means keep going" - for the first one.  I tried both variants and
the things like
	if allocation failed
		something = -ENOMEM;
		return true;
just looked unnatural and asking for trouble.

[folded suggestion from Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>]
Acked-by: Christian Brauner (Microsoft) <brauner@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
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Al Viro
2022-08-16 11:57:56 -04:00
parent d6da19c9ca
commit 25885a35a7
19 changed files with 153 additions and 155 deletions
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@@ -248,21 +248,20 @@ struct getdents_callback {
* A rather strange filldir function to capture
* the name matching the specified inode number.
*/
static int filldir_one(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int len,
static bool filldir_one(struct dir_context *ctx, const char *name, int len,
loff_t pos, u64 ino, unsigned int d_type)
{
struct getdents_callback *buf =
container_of(ctx, struct getdents_callback, ctx);
int result = 0;
buf->sequence++;
if (buf->ino == ino && len <= NAME_MAX) {
memcpy(buf->name, name, len);
buf->name[len] = '\0';
buf->found = 1;
result = -1;
return false; // no more
}
return result;
return true;
}
/**