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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 5/5] bootdevice: add Error **errp argument for QE
From: |
Peter Maydell |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 5/5] bootdevice: add Error **errp argument for QEMUBootSetHandler |
Date: |
Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:23:26 +0000 |
On 16 December 2014 at 13:04, Gonglei <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 2014/12/16 20:42, Peter Maydell wrote:
>
>> On 16 December 2014 at 09:22, <address@hidden> wrote:
>>> @@ -412,9 +411,7 @@ void pc_cmos_init(ram_addr_t ram_size, ram_addr_t
>>> above_4g_mem_size,
>>> object_property_set_link(OBJECT(machine), OBJECT(s),
>>> "rtc_state", &error_abort);
>>>
>>> - if (set_boot_dev(s, boot_device)) {
>>> - exit(1);
>>> - }
>>> + set_boot_dev(s, boot_device, &error_abort);
>>
>> This turns a "print error message and exit" path into
>> an abort(), which doesn't seem right (this can be triggered
>> by bad user input arguments, yes?). error_abort should
>> only be used in cases where you would assert() if there
>> was an error (ie where it would be a QEMU bug if it
>> happened).
>>
>
> Yes, agree. How does use a incremental patch fix this, Peter?
>
> diff --git a/hw/i386/pc.c b/hw/i386/pc.c
> index 99deba6..d7822b8 100644
> --- a/hw/i386/pc.c
> +++ b/hw/i386/pc.c
> @@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ void pc_cmos_init(ram_addr_t ram_size, ram_addr_t
> above_4g_mem_size,
> FDriveType fd_type[2] = { FDRIVE_DRV_NONE, FDRIVE_DRV_NONE };
> static pc_cmos_init_late_arg arg;
> PCMachineState *pc_machine = PC_MACHINE(machine);
> + Error *local_err = NULL;
>
> /* various important CMOS locations needed by PC/Bochs bios */
>
> @@ -411,7 +412,10 @@ void pc_cmos_init(ram_addr_t ram_size, ram_addr_t
> above_4g_mem_size,
> object_property_set_link(OBJECT(machine), OBJECT(s),
> "rtc_state", &error_abort);
>
> - set_boot_dev(s, boot_device, &error_abort);
> + set_boot_dev(s, boot_device, &local_err);
> + if (local_err) {
> + exit(1);
> + }
That won't print the error message at all...
-- PMM
[Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/5] bootdevice: add Error **errp argument for qemu_boot_set(), arei . gonglei, 2014/12/16
[Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/5] bootdevice: move code about bootorder from vl.c to bootdevice.c, arei . gonglei, 2014/12/16
[Qemu-devel] [PULL 4/5] bootdevice: add validate check for qemu_boot_set(), arei . gonglei, 2014/12/16
[Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/5] bootdevice: add Error **errp argument for validate_bootdevices(), arei . gonglei, 2014/12/16
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/5] bootdevice patches, Peter Maydell, 2014/12/16