[PULL 20/28] vfio: add strread/writeerror()

["Cédric Le Goater" <clg@redhat.com>]

From: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>

Add simple helpers to correctly report failures from read/write routines
using the return -errno style.

Signed-off-by: John Levon <john.levon@nutanix.com>
Reviewed-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/qemu-devel/20250507152020.1254632-7-john.levon@nutanix.com
Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <clg@redhat.com>
---
 include/hw/vfio/vfio-device.h | 14 ++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/hw/vfio/vfio-device.h b/include/hw/vfio/vfio-device.h
index a7eaaa31e7e98a1ec73eefde0d935842ef9da401..4a3220294309d718bb3230a5d3f4bab9e082f951 100644
--- a/include/hw/vfio/vfio-device.h
+++ b/include/hw/vfio/vfio-device.h
@@ -115,6 +115,20 @@ struct VFIODeviceOps {
     int (*vfio_load_config)(VFIODevice *vdev, QEMUFile *f);
 };
 
+/*
+ * Given a return value of either a short number of bytes read or -errno,
+ * construct a meaningful error message.
+ */
+#define strreaderror(ret) \
+    (ret < 0 ? strerror(-ret) : "short read")
+
+/*
+ * Given a return value of either a short number of bytes written or -errno,
+ * construct a meaningful error message.
+ */
+#define strwriteerror(ret) \
+    (ret < 0 ? strerror(-ret) : "short write")
+
 void vfio_device_irq_disable(VFIODevice *vbasedev, int index);
 void vfio_device_irq_unmask(VFIODevice *vbasedev, int index);
 void vfio_device_irq_mask(VFIODevice *vbasedev, int index);
-- 
2.49.0