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* [PATCH 0/3] migration: propagate vTPM errors using Error objects
@ 2025-06-24 12:23 Arun Menon
  2025-06-24 12:23 ` [PATCH 1/3] migration: Pass error object to report it to the caller Arun Menon
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From: Arun Menon @ 2025-06-24 12:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel
  Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin, Marcel Apfelbaum, Cornelia Huck, Halil Pasic,
	Eric Farman, Richard Henderson, David Hildenbrand,
	Ilya Leoshkevich, Thomas Huth, Christian Borntraeger,
	Nicholas Piggin, Daniel Henrique Barboza, Harsh Prateek Bora,
	Paolo Bonzini, Fam Zheng, Alex Williamson, Cédric Le Goater,
	Peter Xu, Fabiano Rosas, Hailiang Zhang, Steve Sistare,
	qemu-s390x, qemu-ppc, Stefan Berger, Daniel P. Berrangé,
	Arun Menon

Currently, when a migration of a VM with an encrypted vTPM
fails on the destination host (e.g., due to a mismatch in secret values),
the error message displayed on the source host is generic and unhelpful.

For example, a typical error looks like this:
"operation failed: job 'migration out' failed: Sibling indicated error 1.
operation failed: job 'migration in' failed: load of migration failed:
Input/output error"

This message does not provide any specific indication of a vTPM failure.
Such generic errors are logged using error_report(), which prints to
the console/monitor but does not make the detailed error accessible via
the QMP query-migrate command.

This series addresses the issue, by ensuring that specific TPM error
messages are propagated via the QEMU Error object.
To make this possible,
- A set of functions in the call stack is changed
  to incorporate an Error object as an additional parameter.
- Also, the TPM backend makes use of a new hook called post_load_with_error()
  that explicitly passes an Error object.

While this series focuses specifically on TPM error reporting during 
live migration, it lays the groundwork for broader improvements. 
Most methods in savevm.c that previously returned an integer now capture 
errors in the Error object, enabling other modules to adopt the 
post_load_with_error hook in the future.

One such change previously attempted:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-02/msg01727.html

The series does not necessarily have to be applied in 1 go. Each patch
can be compiled and tested separately.

Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-82826

Signed-off-by: Arun Menon <armenon@redhat.com>
---
Arun Menon (3):
      migration: Pass error object to report it to the caller
      migration: Use error_setg instead of error_report
      backends/tpm: Propagate vTPM error on migration failure

 backends/tpm/tpm_emulator.c |  39 ++++++++--------
 hw/display/virtio-gpu.c     |   2 +-
 hw/pci/pci.c                |   2 +-
 hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.c       |   2 +-
 hw/scsi/spapr_vscsi.c       |   2 +-
 hw/vfio/pci.c               |   2 +-
 hw/virtio/virtio-mmio.c     |   2 +-
 hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c      |   2 +-
 hw/virtio/virtio.c          |   4 +-
 include/migration/vmstate.h |   3 +-
 migration/colo.c            |   4 +-
 migration/cpr.c             |   2 +-
 migration/migration.c       |  10 +++-
 migration/savevm.c          | 108 +++++++++++++++++++++++++-------------------
 migration/savevm.h          |   7 +--
 migration/vmstate-types.c   |  10 ++--
 migration/vmstate.c         |  40 ++++++++--------
 tests/unit/test-vmstate.c   |  18 ++++----
 18 files changed, 144 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: 43ba160cb4bbb193560eb0d2d7decc4b5fc599fe
change-id: 20250624-propagate_tpm_error-bf4ae6c23d30

Best regards,
-- 
Arun Menon <armenon@redhat.com>



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