libvirt_iohelper is used internally by the virFileWrapperFd APIs; more specifically, in the QEMU driver we have the doCoreDump() and qemuDomainSaveMemory() helper functions as users, and those in turn end up being called by the implementation of several driver APIs.
By calling virReportError() if libvirt_iohelper has failed, we overwrite whatever generic error message QEMU might have raised with the more useful one generated by the helper program. After this commit, the user will be able to see the error directly instead of having to dig in the journal or libvirtd log. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1578741 Signed-off-by: Andrea Bolognani <abolo...@redhat.com> --- src/util/virfile.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c index 8e045279f0..1b61cbd127 100644 --- a/src/util/virfile.c +++ b/src/util/virfile.c @@ -337,8 +337,12 @@ virFileWrapperFdClose(virFileWrapperFdPtr wfd) ret = virCommandWait(wfd->cmd, NULL); + /* If the command used to process IO has produced errors, it's fair + * to assume those will be more relevant to the user than whatever + * eg. QEMU can figure out on its own, so it's okay if we end up + * discarding an existing error */ if (wfd->err_msg && *wfd->err_msg) - VIR_WARN("iohelper reports: %s", wfd->err_msg); + virReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED, "%s", wfd->err_msg); wfd->closed = true; -- 2.20.1 -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
