From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: odaki@rsg.ci.i.u-tokyo.ac.jp, marcandre.lureau@redhat.com,
berrange@redhat.com, richard.henderson@linaro.org,
vsementsov@yandex-team.ru,
Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 05/13] hw/remote/vfio-user: Clean up error reporting
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2025 11:25:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cdb37c70-f5e3-4117-8d24-ff462e6bbddb@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250923091000.3180122-6-armbru@redhat.com>
On 23/9/25 11:09, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> VFU_OBJECT_ERROR() reports the error with error_setg(&error_abort,
> ...) when auto-shutdown is enabled, else with error_report().
>
> Issues:
>
> 1. The error is serious enough to warrant aborting the process when
> auto-shutdown is enabled, yet harmless enough to permit carrying on
> when it's disabled. This makes no sense to me.
>
> 2. Like assert(), &error_abort is strictly for programming errors. Is
> this one? Or should we exit(1) instead?
>
> 3. qapi/error.h advises "don't error_setg(&error_abort, ...), use
> assert()."
>
> This patch addresses just 3.
>
> Cc: Jagannathan Raman <jag.raman@oracle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> ---
> hw/remote/vfio-user-obj.c | 9 +++------
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-23 9:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-09-23 9:09 [PATCH v3 00/13] Error reporting cleanup, a fix, and &error_warn removal Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] monitor: Clean up HMP gdbserver error reporting Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:54 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-23 11:08 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] tcg: Fix error reporting on mprotect() failure in tcg_region_init() Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:41 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-23 11:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 12:40 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] hw/cxl: Convert cxl_fmws_link() to Error Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] migration/cpr: Clean up error reporting in cpr_resave_fd() Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] hw/remote/vfio-user: Clean up error reporting Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:25 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2025-09-23 10:14 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-09-26 6:51 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-09-30 8:02 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-09-30 8:21 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] net/slirp: " Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] ui/spice-core: " Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] util/oslib-win32: Do not treat null @errp as &error_warn Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:19 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] ui/pixman: Consistent error handling in qemu_pixman_shareable_free() Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] ui/dbus: Clean up dbus_update_gl_cb() error checking Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:21 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] ui/dbus: Consistent handling of texture mutex failure Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 9:09 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] ivshmem-flat: Mark an instance of missing error handling FIXME Markus Armbruster
2025-09-23 10:22 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
2025-09-23 9:10 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] error: Kill @error_warn Markus Armbruster
2025-09-24 1:29 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] Error reporting cleanup, a fix, and &error_warn removal Akihiko Odaki
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