Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 4/4] ivshmem: check the value returned by fstat()

[Levente Kurusa]

> The function fstat() may fail, so check its return value.
> 
> Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/misc/ivshmem.c | 6 +++++-
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> index 768e528..5d939d2 100644
> --- a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> +++ b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
> @@ -324,7 +324,11 @@ static int check_shm_size(IVShmemState *s, int fd) {
>  
>      struct stat buf;
>  
> -    fstat(fd, &buf);
> +    if (fstat(fd, &buf) < 0) {
> +        fprintf(stderr, "ivshmem: exiting for fstat fd '%d' failed: %s\n",
> +                fd, strerror(errno));

exiting for fstat?

I would go with something like this:

"ivshmem: exiting: fstat on fd %d failed: %s"

... or something among the lines.

Thanks!
Levente Kurusa