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    SubjectRe: [RFC v3 38/45] nfs/sunrpc: Return status code from encode functions
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    On Fri, Apr 24, 2015 at 7:04 AM, Andreas Gruenbacher
    <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> wrote:
    > Return a status code from the sunrpc xdr encode functions. While these
    > functions were originally returning a status code before commit 9f06c719 from
    > December 2010, it was found that none of them can actually fail and so they
    > were turned into void functions. With more complex objects like NFSv4 ACLs to
    > encode, it makes sense to do memory allocations and some of the error checking
    > inside the encode functions, so those functions may fail.


    The standard way to do this is to allocate the xdr buffer and perform
    the xdr encoding outside the RPC call itself. Please see the
    layoutcommit function, for instance.

    Trond


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