Re: [PATCH v5 1/3] x86/tdx: Add TDX Guest attestation interface driver

From: Kai Huang
Date: Tue May 03 2022 - 18:08:22 EST


On Tue, 2022-05-03 at 08:09 -0700, Sathyanarayanan Kuppuswamy wrote:
>
> On 5/3/22 7:38 AM, Wander Costa wrote:
> > > I don't want to pollute the dmesg logs if possible. For IOCTL use case,
> > > the return value can be used to understand the failure reason from user
> > > code. But for initcall failure, pr_err message is required to understand
> > > the failure reason.
> > How often is this call expected to fail?
>
> In general, it should not fail (so very low fail frequency). But the
> point is, we can easily understand this failure from user end. So we
> don't need to print more in non-debug environment.
>
> >

To support your statement, all the error codes return to userspace need to be
clearly documented around the IOCTL in the uapi header. But I think you have to
do this anyway.

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Thanks,
-Kai