Re: [PATCH] hmp: Fix loadvm to resume the VM on success instead of failure

["Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:58:01PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> Am 11.05.2021 um 18:49 hat Daniel P. Berrangé geschrieben:
> > On Tue, May 11, 2021 at 06:31:51PM +0200, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> > > Commit f61fe11aa6f broke hmp_loadvm() by adding an incorrect negation
> > > when converting from 0/-errno return values to a bool value. The result
> > > is that loadvm resumes the VM now if it failed and keeps it stopped if
> > > it failed. Fix it to restore the old behaviour and do it the other way
> > > around.
> > > 
> > > Fixes: f61fe11aa6f7f8f0ffe4ddaa56a8108f3ab57854
> > > Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
> > > Reported-by: Yanhui Ma <yama@redhat.com>
> > > Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> > > ---
> > >  monitor/hmp-cmds.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/monitor/hmp-cmds.c b/monitor/hmp-cmds.c
> > > index 0ad5b77477..cc15d9b6ee 100644
> > > --- a/monitor/hmp-cmds.c
> > > +++ b/monitor/hmp-cmds.c
> > > @@ -1133,7 +1133,7 @@ void hmp_loadvm(Monitor *mon, const QDict *qdict)
> > >  
> > >      vm_stop(RUN_STATE_RESTORE_VM);
> > >  
> > > -    if (!load_snapshot(name, NULL, false, NULL, &err) && saved_vm_running) {
> > > +    if (load_snapshot(name, NULL, false, NULL, &err) && saved_vm_running) {
> > >          vm_start();
> > >      }
> > >      hmp_handle_error(mon, err);
> > 
> > Paolo had sent a different fix here:
> > 
> >   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-05/msg01093.html
> 
> Hm... I missed that patch, but doesn't it just generalise the buggy HMP
> code instead of fixing it? That is, we still resume the VM on failure
> rather than on success?

Yes, if I use my iotest patch on Paolo's patch it shows that it is
still broken.

Regards,
Daniel
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