Currently, there are several places in zvol_id where the program logic
returns particular errno values, or even particular ioctl return values,
as the program exit status, rather than a straightforward system of
explicit zero on success and explicit nonzero value(s) on failure.
This is problematic for multiple reasons. One particularly interesting
problem that can arise, is that if any of these values happens to have
all 8 least significant bits unset (i.e., it is a positive or negative
multiple of 256), then although the C program sees a nonzero int value
(presumed to be a failure exit status), the actual exit status as seen
by the system is only the bottom 8 bits of that integer: zero.
This can happen in practice, and I have encountered it myself. In a
particularly weird situation, the zvol_open code in the zfs kernel
module was behaving in such a manner that it caused the open() syscall
to fail and for errno to be set to a kernel-private value (ERESTARTSYS,
which happens to be defined as 512). It turns out that 512 is evenly
divisible by 256; or, in other words, its least significant 8 bits are
all-zero. So even though zvol_id believed it was returning a nonzero
(failure) exit status of 512, the system modulo'd that value by 256,
resulting in the actual exit status visible by other programs being 0!
This actually-zero (non-failure) exit status caused problems: udev
believed that the program was operating successfully, when in fact it
was attempting to indicate failure via a nonzero exit status integer.
Combined with another problem, this led to the creation of nonsense
symlinks for zvol dev nodes by udev.
Let's get rid of all this problematic logic, and simply return
EXIT_SUCCESS (0) is everything went fine, and EXIT_FAILURE (1) if
anything went wrong.
Additionally, let's clarify some of the variable names (error is similar
to errno, etc) and clean up the overall program flow a bit.
Reviewed-by: Brian Behlendorf <behlendorf1@llnl.gov>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Zakharov <pavel.zakharov@delphix.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Gottula <justin@jgottula.com>
Closes#12302
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