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From: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
To: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: imammedo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] osdep: Make qemu_madvise() to set errno in all cases
Date: Tue, 28 May 2024 18:51:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5e9a1ca9-b9b8-44f0-9e0c-b56ae0b2c0fc@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4d8a74a512bf55f39c5d1be115b1c52b6a632e09.1716912651.git.mprivozn@redhat.com>

Am 28.05.24 um 18:15 schrieb Michal Privoznik:
> The unspoken premise of qemu_madvise() is that errno is set on
> error. And it is mostly the case except for posix_madvise() which
> is documented to return either zero (on success) or a positive
> error number. This means, we must set errno ourselves. And while
> at it, make the function return a negative value on error, just
> like other error paths do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
> ---
>   util/osdep.c | 7 ++++++-
>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/util/osdep.c b/util/osdep.c
> index e996c4744a..e42f4e8121 100644
> --- a/util/osdep.c
> +++ b/util/osdep.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,12 @@ int qemu_madvise(void *addr, size_t len, int advice)
>   #if defined(CONFIG_MADVISE)
>       return madvise(addr, len, advice);
>   #elif defined(CONFIG_POSIX_MADVISE)
> -    return posix_madvise(addr, len, advice);
> +    int rc = posix_madvise(addr, len, advice);
> +    if (rc) {
> +        errno = rc;
> +        return -1;
> +    }
> +    return 0;
>   #else
>       errno = EINVAL;
>       return -1;

Interesting, seems to be correct

Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>

-- 
Thanks,

David / dhildenb



  reply	other threads:[~2024-05-28 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-05-28 16:15 [PATCH 0/3] backends/hostmem: Round up memory size for qemu_madvise() and mbind() Michal Privoznik
2024-05-28 16:15 ` [PATCH 1/3] osdep: Make qemu_madvise() to set errno in all cases Michal Privoznik
2024-05-28 16:51   ` David Hildenbrand [this message]
2024-05-28 16:15 ` [PATCH 2/3] backends/hostmem: Warn on qemu_madvise() failures Michal Privoznik
2024-05-28 16:15 ` [PATCH 3/3] backends/hostmem: Round up memory size for qemu_madvise() and mbind() Michal Privoznik
2024-05-28 16:47   ` David Hildenbrand
2024-05-29  6:48     ` Michal Prívozník
2024-05-29 12:30       ` David Hildenbrand
2024-05-28 17:22   ` Richard Henderson

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