From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dave@treblig.org>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 09/14] error: Use error_setg_file_open() for simplicity and consistency
Date: Thu, 20 Nov 2025 23:57:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <aR-q2YeegIEPmk2R@gallifrey> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20251120191339.756429-10-armbru@redhat.com>
* Markus Armbruster (armbru@redhat.com) wrote:
> Replace
>
> error_setg_errno(errp, errno, MSG, FNAME);
>
> by
>
> error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, FNAME);
>
> where MSG is "Could not open '%s'" or similar.
>
> Also replace equivalent uses of error_setg().
>
> A few messages lose prefixes ("net dump: ", "SEV: ", __func__ ": ").
> We could put them back with error_prepend(). Not worth the bother.
Yeh, I guess you could just do it with another macro using
the same internal function just with string concatenation.
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dave@treblig.org>
> ---
> hw/9pfs/9p-local.c | 2 +-
> hw/acpi/core.c | 2 +-
> hw/core/loader.c | 2 +-
> hw/pci-host/xen_igd_pt.c | 2 +-
> monitor/hmp-cmds-target.c | 2 +-
> net/dump.c | 2 +-
> net/tap-bsd.c | 6 +++---
> net/tap-linux.c | 2 +-
> target/i386/sev.c | 6 ++----
> ui/ui-qmp-cmds.c | 3 +--
> util/vfio-helpers.c | 5 ++---
> 11 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> index 31e216227c..376b377698 100644
> --- a/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> +++ b/hw/9pfs/9p-local.c
> @@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ static int local_init(FsContext *ctx, Error **errp)
>
> data->mountfd = open(ctx->fs_root, O_DIRECTORY | O_RDONLY);
> if (data->mountfd == -1) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "failed to open '%s'", ctx->fs_root);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, ctx->fs_root);
> goto err;
> }
>
> diff --git a/hw/acpi/core.c b/hw/acpi/core.c
> index ff16582803..d2677332af 100644
> --- a/hw/acpi/core.c
> +++ b/hw/acpi/core.c
> @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ void acpi_table_add(const QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp)
> int fd = open(*cur, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
>
> if (fd < 0) {
> - error_setg(errp, "can't open file %s: %s", *cur, strerror(errno));
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, *cur);
> goto out;
> }
>
> diff --git a/hw/core/loader.c b/hw/core/loader.c
> index 590c5b02aa..b56e5eb2f5 100644
> --- a/hw/core/loader.c
> +++ b/hw/core/loader.c
> @@ -379,7 +379,7 @@ void load_elf_hdr(const char *filename, void *hdr, bool *is64, Error **errp)
>
> fd = open(filename, O_RDONLY | O_BINARY);
> if (fd < 0) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Failed to open file: %s", filename);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, filename);
> return;
> }
> if (read(fd, hdr, EI_NIDENT) != EI_NIDENT) {
> diff --git a/hw/pci-host/xen_igd_pt.c b/hw/pci-host/xen_igd_pt.c
> index 5dd17ef236..f6016f2cd5 100644
> --- a/hw/pci-host/xen_igd_pt.c
> +++ b/hw/pci-host/xen_igd_pt.c
> @@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ static void host_pci_config_read(int pos, int len, uint32_t *val, Error **errp)
>
> config_fd = open(path, O_RDWR);
> if (config_fd < 0) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Failed to open: %s", path);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, path);
> goto out;
> }
>
> diff --git a/monitor/hmp-cmds-target.c b/monitor/hmp-cmds-target.c
> index e982061146..ad4ed2167d 100644
> --- a/monitor/hmp-cmds-target.c
> +++ b/monitor/hmp-cmds-target.c
> @@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ static uint64_t vtop(void *ptr, Error **errp)
>
> fd = open("/proc/self/pagemap", O_RDONLY);
> if (fd == -1) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Cannot open /proc/self/pagemap");
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, "/proc/self/pagemap");
> return -1;
> }
>
> diff --git a/net/dump.c b/net/dump.c
> index 581234b775..0c39f09892 100644
> --- a/net/dump.c
> +++ b/net/dump.c
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static int net_dump_state_init(DumpState *s, const char *filename,
>
> fd = open(filename, O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_WRONLY | O_BINARY, 0644);
> if (fd < 0) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "net dump: can't open %s", filename);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, filename);
> return -1;
> }
>
> diff --git a/net/tap-bsd.c b/net/tap-bsd.c
> index bbf84d1828..3fd300d46f 100644
> --- a/net/tap-bsd.c
> +++ b/net/tap-bsd.c
> @@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr,
> }
> }
> if (fd < 0) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "could not open %s", dname);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, dname);
> return -1;
> }
>
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static int tap_open_clone(char *ifname, int ifname_size, Error **errp)
>
> fd = RETRY_ON_EINTR(open(PATH_NET_TAP, O_RDWR));
> if (fd < 0) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "could not open %s", PATH_NET_TAP);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, PATH_NET_TAP);
> return -1;
> }
>
> @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr,
> snprintf(dname, sizeof dname, "/dev/%s", ifname);
> fd = RETRY_ON_EINTR(open(dname, O_RDWR));
> if (fd < 0 && errno != ENOENT) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "could not open %s", dname);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, dname);
> return -1;
> }
> }
> diff --git a/net/tap-linux.c b/net/tap-linux.c
> index 2a90b58467..909c4f1fcf 100644
> --- a/net/tap-linux.c
> +++ b/net/tap-linux.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr,
> if (fd < 0) {
> fd = RETRY_ON_EINTR(open(PATH_NET_TUN, O_RDWR));
> if (fd < 0) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "could not open %s", PATH_NET_TUN);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, PATH_NET_TUN);
> return -1;
> }
> }
> diff --git a/target/i386/sev.c b/target/i386/sev.c
> index fd2dada013..8660ecd9e4 100644
> --- a/target/i386/sev.c
> +++ b/target/i386/sev.c
> @@ -891,8 +891,7 @@ static SevCapability *sev_get_capabilities(Error **errp)
>
> fd = open(sev_device, O_RDWR);
> if (fd < 0) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "SEV: Failed to open %s",
> - sev_device);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, sev_device);
> g_free(sev_device);
> return NULL;
> }
> @@ -1819,8 +1818,7 @@ static int sev_common_kvm_init(ConfidentialGuestSupport *cgs, Error **errp)
> devname = object_property_get_str(OBJECT(sev_common), "sev-device", NULL);
> sev_common->sev_fd = open(devname, O_RDWR);
> if (sev_common->sev_fd < 0) {
> - error_setg(errp, "%s: Failed to open %s '%s'", __func__,
> - devname, strerror(errno));
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, devname);
> g_free(devname);
> return -1;
> }
> diff --git a/ui/ui-qmp-cmds.c b/ui/ui-qmp-cmds.c
> index 74fa6c6ec5..d927121676 100644
> --- a/ui/ui-qmp-cmds.c
> +++ b/ui/ui-qmp-cmds.c
> @@ -371,8 +371,7 @@ qmp_screendump(const char *filename, const char *device,
>
> fd = qemu_open_old(filename, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, 0666);
> if (fd == -1) {
> - error_setg(errp, "failed to open file '%s': %s", filename,
> - strerror(errno));
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, filename);
> return;
> }
>
> diff --git a/util/vfio-helpers.c b/util/vfio-helpers.c
> index fdff042ab4..8b1b2e2f05 100644
> --- a/util/vfio-helpers.c
> +++ b/util/vfio-helpers.c
> @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ static int qemu_vfio_init_pci(QEMUVFIOState *s, const char *device,
> s->container = open("/dev/vfio/vfio", O_RDWR);
>
> if (s->container == -1) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Failed to open /dev/vfio/vfio");
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, "/dev/vfio/vfio");
> return -errno;
> }
> if (ioctl(s->container, VFIO_GET_API_VERSION) != VFIO_API_VERSION) {
> @@ -333,8 +333,7 @@ static int qemu_vfio_init_pci(QEMUVFIOState *s, const char *device,
>
> s->group = open(group_file, O_RDWR);
> if (s->group == -1) {
> - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Failed to open VFIO group file: %s",
> - group_file);
> + error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, group_file);
> g_free(group_file);
> ret = -errno;
> goto fail_container;
> --
> 2.49.0
>
--
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-11-21 0:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-11-20 19:13 [PATCH 00/14] Error message improvements Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 01/14] error: Strip trailing '\n' from error string arguments (again) Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 02/14] hw/usb: Use error_setg_file_open() for a better error message Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 0:42 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-21 5:28 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 03/14] tap-solaris: Use error_setg_file_open() for better error messages Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 0:24 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-21 5:35 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 04/14] qga: " Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 1:12 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 05/14] hw/scsi: Use error_setg_file_open() for a better error message Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 2:05 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 06/14] hw/virtio: " Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 07/14] net/tap: " Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 08/14] blkdebug: " Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 09/14] error: Use error_setg_file_open() for simplicity and consistency Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 23:57 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert [this message]
2025-11-21 5:45 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 17:45 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-22 7:36 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-22 11:53 ` BALATON Zoltan
2025-11-22 13:58 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 10/14] net/slirp: Improve file open error message Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 11/14] error: Use error_setg_errno() to improve error messages Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 0:10 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-21 5:46 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 7:37 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 12/14] error: Use error_setg_errno() for simplicity and consistency Markus Armbruster
2025-11-21 0:15 ` Dr. David Alan Gilbert
2025-11-21 5:47 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 13/14] qga/commands-win32: Use error_setg_win32() for better error messages Markus Armbruster
2025-11-20 19:13 ` [PATCH 14/14] block/file-win32: Improve an error message Markus Armbruster
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