Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v5 1/1] block: improve error handling in raw_open

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Tue, Oct 11, 2016 at 04:12:35PM +0200, Halil Pasic wrote:
> Make raw_open for POSIX more consistent in handling errors by setting
> the error object also when qemu_open fails. The error object was set
> generally set in case of errors, but I guess this case was overlooked.
> Do the same for win32.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Halil Pasic <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Sascha Silbe <address@hidden>
> Tested-by: Marc Hartmayer <address@hidden> (POSIX only)
> 
> ---
> 
> Stumbled upon this (POSIX) while testing VMs with too many SCSI disks in
> respect to my nofile limit. When open hits the nofile limit while trying
> to hotplug yet another SCSI disk via libvirt we end up with no adequate
> error message (one stating too many files). Sadly this patch in not
> sufficient to fix this problem because drive_new (/qemu/blockdev.c)
> handles errors using error_report_err which is documented as not to be
> used in QMP context.
> 
> The win32 part was not tested, and the sole reason I touched it is
> to not introduce unnecessary divergence.
> 
> v4 -> v5:
> * fix qemu-iotests by adding the filename to the message

This patch doesn't modify any iotests golden master files.  Does this
mean the iotests output is unchanged?

> v3 -> v4:
> * rebased on current master
> v2 -> v3:
> * first save errno then error_setg_errno
> v1 -> v2:
> * fixed win32 by the correct error_setg_*
> * use the original errno consequently
> ---
>  block/raw-posix.c | 1 +
>  block/raw-win32.c | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 2 insertions(+)

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

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