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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: do_commit() does not pass along error me


From: Jeff Cody
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: do_commit() does not pass along error messages for all errors
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 09:27:40 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 09:57:28AM -0200, Luiz Capitulino wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:49:38 +0100
> Markus Armbruster <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > [Cc: Luiz for error stuff]
> > 
> > Jeff Cody <address@hidden> writes:
> > 
> > > The non-live bdrv_commit() function may return one of the following
> > > errors: -ENOTSUP, -EBUSY, -EACCES, -EIO.  The only error that is
> > > checked in the HMP handler is -EBUSY, so the monitor command 'commit'
> > > silently fails for all error cases other than 'Device is in use'.
> > >
> > > This patch adds the appropriate error messages for the errors
> > > explicitely returned by bdrv_commit().
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > > ---
> > >  blockdev.c | 14 ++++++++++++++
> > >  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/blockdev.c b/blockdev.c
> > > index d724e2d..7db7d8e 100644
> > > --- a/blockdev.c
> > > +++ b/blockdev.c
> > > @@ -657,6 +657,20 @@ void do_commit(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict)
> > >              qerror_report(QERR_DEVICE_IN_USE, device);
> > >              return;
> > >          }
> > > +        if (ret == -EACCES) {
> > > +            qerror_report(QERR_DEVICE_IS_READ_ONLY, device);
> > > +            return;
> > > +        }
> > > +        if (ret == -EIO) {
> > > +            qerror_report(QERR_IO_ERROR);
> > > +            return;
> > > +        }
> > > +        if (ret == -ENOTSUP) {
> > > +            const char *format = bdrv_get_format_name(bs);
> > > +            qerror_report(QERR_BLOCK_FORMAT_FEATURE_NOT_SUPPORTED,
> > > +                          format ? format : "NULL", device, "commit");
> > > +
> > > +        }
> > >      }
> > >  }
> > 
> > A switch could be more obvious than the if cascade.  Matter of taste.
> > 
> > We're trying to avoid QERR_ in new code.  This case isn't bad, because
> > it doesn't add new QERR_ defines.  Should we convert the function to
> > error_setg() instead?  Perhaps a few cases could be collapsed into a
> > single error_setg_errno() then.
> 
> I'd suggest to convert do_commit() to the qapi. However, we already
> have block-commit in QMP. So I'm not sure this is a good idea.
> 
> If it isn't, then maybe we could drop all qerro_report() calls and
> use monitor_printf() instead (building the error message with
> strerror()), as do_commit() seems to be used only from HMP.

I think I agree in keeping do_commit() HMP only.  I'll submit a v2 to
just use monitor_printf() for all error strings, rather than
qerror_report().

Thanks,
Jeff



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