[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-1.7 v2] block: Print its file name if backing file opening failed

[Fam Zheng]

If backing file doesn't exist, the error message is confusing and
misleading:

    $ qemu /tmp/a.qcow2
    qemu: could not open disk image /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open file: No
    such file or directory

But...

    $ ls /tmp/a.qcow2
    /tmp/a.qcow2

    $ qemu-img info /tmp/a.qcow2
    image: /tmp/a.qcow2
    file format: qcow2
    virtual size: 8.0G (8589934592 bytes)
    disk size: 196K
    cluster_size: 65536
    backing file: /tmp/b.qcow2

Because...

    $ ls /tmp/b.qcow2
    ls: cannot access /tmp/b.qcow2: No such file or directory

This is not intuitive. It's better to have the missing file's name in
the error message. With this patch:

    $ qemu-io -c 'read 0 512' /tmp/a.qcow2
    qemu-io: can't open device /tmp/a.qcow2: Could not open backing
    file: Could not open '/stor/vm/arch.raw': No such file or directory
    no file open, try 'help open'

Which is a little bit better.

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>

---
v2: Don't leak local_err (Eric).

Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>
---
 block.c                    | 4 +++-
 block/raw-posix.c          | 1 -
 block/raw-win32.c          | 1 -
 tests/qemu-iotests/051.out | 2 +-
 tests/qemu-iotests/069.out | 2 +-
 5 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
index f706634..7ffb08b 100644
--- a/block.c
+++ b/block.c
@@ -1009,7 +1009,9 @@ int bdrv_open_backing_file(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict 
*options, Error **errp)
         bdrv_unref(bs->backing_hd);
         bs->backing_hd = NULL;
         bs->open_flags |= BDRV_O_NO_BACKING;
-        error_propagate(errp, local_err);
+        error_setg(errp, "Could not open backing file: %s",
+                   error_get_pretty(local_err));
+        error_free(local_err);
         return ret;
     }
     pstrcpy(bs->backing_file, sizeof(bs->backing_file),
diff --git a/block/raw-posix.c b/block/raw-posix.c
index f6d48bb..e1b1ba2 100644
--- a/block/raw-posix.c
+++ b/block/raw-posix.c
@@ -310,7 +310,6 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict 
*options,
         if (ret == -EROFS) {
             ret = -EACCES;
         }
-        error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not open file");
         goto fail;
     }
     s->fd = fd;
diff --git a/block/raw-win32.c b/block/raw-win32.c
index 2741e4d..2bad5a3 100644
--- a/block/raw-win32.c
+++ b/block/raw-win32.c
@@ -280,7 +280,6 @@ static int raw_open(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict *options, 
int flags,
         } else {
             ret = -EINVAL;
         }
-        error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not open file");
         goto fail;
     }
 
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out
index 15deef6..d351935 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/051.out
@@ -226,6 +226,6 @@ Testing: -drive file=foo:bar
 QEMU_PROG: -drive file=foo:bar: could not open disk image foo:bar: Unknown 
protocol
 
 Testing: -drive file.filename=foo:bar
-QEMU_PROG: -drive file.filename=foo:bar: could not open disk image ide0-hd0: 
Could not open file: No such file or directory
+QEMU_PROG: -drive file.filename=foo:bar: could not open disk image ide0-hd0: 
Could not open 'foo:bar': No such file or directory
 
 *** done
diff --git a/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out b/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
index 3648814..b48306d 100644
--- a/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
+++ b/tests/qemu-iotests/069.out
@@ -4,5 +4,5 @@ QA output created by 069
 
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base', fmt=IMGFMT size=131072 
 Formatting 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT', fmt=IMGFMT size=131072 
backing_file='TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base' 
-qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Could not open file: No such 
file or directory
+qemu-io: can't open device TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT: Could not open backing file: 
Could not open 'TEST_DIR/t.IMGFMT.base': No such file or directory
 *** done
-- 
1.8.3.1