[PATCH RFC 1/8] certs: Introduce ability to link to a system key

Jarkko Sakkinen jarkko at kernel.org
Tue Mar 12 15:18:45 UTC 2024


On Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 11:31 PM EET, Eric Snowberg wrote:
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> > On Mar 11, 2024, at 1:18 PM, Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko at kernel.org> wrote:
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> > On Mon Mar 11, 2024 at 6:11 PM EET, Eric Snowberg wrote:
> >> + return -1;
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> > Missed this one: why a magic number?
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> Good point, I'll change this to return -ENOKEY.  Thanks.

Either that or a boolean function, which ever fits to the overall
flow better... The upside of error code is less branching in the call
sites. The upside of boolean is that caller exactly knows all the
values that ever should come out as a result.

Your choice ofc.

BR, Jarkko



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