Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Add an error_report when failing to open due to block-drv-whitelist

[Ryan Harper <ryanh@us.ibm.com>]

* Anthony Liguori <anthony@codemonkey.ws> [2010-06-09 14:36]:
> On 06/09/2010 02:28 PM, Ryan Harper wrote:
> >When configure qemu with --block-drv-whitelist we don't report when we are
> >blocked by the white list and the resulting error message is misleading:
> >
> >./configure --target-list=x86_64-softmmu \
> >             --block-drv-whitelist=qcow2,raw,host_device,host_cdrom
> >
> >x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios -m 512 -drive \
> >         file=fedora9_32_20G.qcow2,if=ide -monitor stdio
> >qemu: could not open disk image fedora9_32_20G.qcow2: Inappropriate ioctl 
> >for device
> >
> >Which might lead one to look at the bdrv probe functions for floppy/cdrom
> >because we indeed will get an ioctl failure stored in errno and we report 
> >this
> >in vl.c when we get a non-zero return value from bdrv_open().
> >
> >This patch adds an error report when we fail the whitelist and changes the 
> >errno
> >value to ENOPROTOOPT which was the closest thing I could think of that 
> >matched
> >the actual error.
> >
> >Now we get the following output on whitelist failure:
> >
> >x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -L pc-bios -m 512 -drive \
> >         file=fedora9_32_20G.qcow2,if=ide -monitor stdio
> >qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=fedora9_32_20G.qcow2,if=ide: 
> >block-drv-whitelist prevents using format 'file'
> >qemu: could not open disk image fedora9_32_20G.qcow2: Protocol not 
> >supported
> >   
> 
> Do you really have to say raw and file in the whitelist?  Is that what 
> the source of the problem is?

I have to add 'file' to the whitelist string to get the above command
line to work.


> 
> Regards,
> 
> Anthony Liguori
> 
> >Signed-off-by: Ryan Harper<ryanh@us.ibm.com>
> >---
> >  block.c |    3 +++
> >  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >
> >diff --git a/block.c b/block.c
> >index 39724c1..ffcf7f2 100644
> >--- a/block.c
> >+++ b/block.c
> >@@ -403,6 +403,9 @@ static int bdrv_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, 
> >const char *filename,
> >      pstrcpy(bs->filename, sizeof(bs->filename), filename);
> >
> >      if (use_bdrv_whitelist&&  !bdrv_is_whitelisted(drv)) {
> >+        error_report("block-drv-whitelist prevents using format '%s'", 
> >drv->format_name);
> >+        /* reset errno since we're failing because of whitelist 
> >restrictions */
> >+        errno = EPROTONOSUPPORT;
> >          return -ENOTSUP;
> >      }
> >
> >   

-- 
Ryan Harper
Software Engineer; Linux Technology Center
IBM Corp., Austin, Tx
ryanh@us.ibm.com