[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] dump-guest-memory: more descriptive lookup_type failure

[Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>]

We've seen a few reports of

 (gdb) source /usr/share/qemu-kvm/dump-guest-memory.py
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/usr/share/qemu-kvm/dump-guest-memory.py", line 19, in <module>
     UINTPTR_T = gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t")
 gdb.error: No type named uintptr_t.

This occurs when symbols haven't been loaded first, i.e. neither a
QEMU binary was loaded nor a QEMU process was attached first. Let's
better inform the user of how to fix the issue themselves in order
to avoid more reports.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Jones <drjones@redhat.com>
---
 scripts/dump-guest-memory.py | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
index 51acfcd0c053..e56fff6d7e82 100644
--- a/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
+++ b/scripts/dump-guest-memory.py
@@ -16,7 +16,11 @@ the COPYING file in the top-level directory.
 import ctypes
 import struct
 
-UINTPTR_T = gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t")
+try:
+    UINTPTR_T = gdb.lookup_type("uintptr_t")
+except Exception as inst:
+    raise gdb.GdbError("Symbols must be loaded prior to sourcing dump-guest-memory.\n"
+                       "Symbols may be loaded by first 'attach'ing a QEMU process id or by 'load'ing a QEMU binary.")
 
 TARGET_PAGE_SIZE = 0x1000
 TARGET_PAGE_MASK = 0xFFFFFFFFFFFFF000
-- 
2.13.6