Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] socket: allow wait=false for client socket

[Marc-André Lureau]

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 6:08 PM Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 06:06:09PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > Commit 767abe7 ("chardev: forbid 'wait' option with client sockets")
> > is a bit too strict. Current libvirt always set wait=false, and will
> > thus fail to add client chardev.
> >
> > Make the code more permissive, allowing wait=false with client socket
> > chardevs.
> >
> > Fixes: 767abe7f49e8be14d29da5db3527817b5d696a52
> > Cc: Daniel P. Berrangé <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  chardev/char-socket.c | 10 +++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/chardev/char-socket.c b/chardev/char-socket.c
> > index 3916505d67..ebc1adb83e 100644
> > --- a/chardev/char-socket.c
> > +++ b/chardev/char-socket.c
> > @@ -1263,9 +1263,13 @@ static bool 
> > qmp_chardev_validate_socket(ChardevSocket *sock,
> >              return false;
> >          }
> >          if (sock->has_wait) {
> > -            error_setg(errp, "%s",
> > -                       "'wait' option is incompatible with "
> > -                       "socket in client connect mode");
> > +            warn_report("'wait' option is deprecated with "
> > +                        "socket in client connect mode");
> > +            if (sock->wait) {
> > +                error_setg(errp, "%s",
> > +                           "'wait' option is incompatible with "
> > +                           "socket in client connect mode");
> > +            }
> >              return false;
> >          }
> >      }
>
> NB, it should also update qemu-deprecated.texi

Is that clear enough?

diff --git a/qemu-deprecated.texi b/qemu-deprecated.texi
index 2219386769..0f53d1c228 100644
--- a/qemu-deprecated.texi
+++ b/qemu-deprecated.texi
@@ -105,6 +105,12 @@ details.
 The ``query-events'' command has been superseded by the more powerful
 and accurate ``query-qmp-schema'' command.

address@hidden chardev client socket with 'wait' option (since 4.0)
+
+The ``chardev-add'' and ``chardev-change'' should not be used to
+create client sockets with a ``wait'' field, which is reserved for
+server sockets only.
+
 @section Human Monitor Protocol (HMP) commands

 @subsection The hub_id parameter of 'hostfwd_add' / 'hostfwd_remove'
(since 3.1)




-- 
Marc-André Lureau