> When using the 'crash' policy with -compat options, QEMU will
> abort() on a policy violation. All the user sees is a core
> dump though and while the stack trace will ultimately show
> what the violation was, it can be hard to reverse engineer
> the cause when variables are optimized out. If the crash is
> within a CI system, it can be even harder to determine what
> the cause was as a core dump may not be available.
> 
> Printing a message when crashing is easier to diagnose when
> limited context is available.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <[email protected]>
> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
> ---
>  qapi/qapi-util.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/qapi/qapi-util.c b/qapi/qapi-util.c
> index c845cadbdf2f..1141813747b4 100644
> --- a/qapi/qapi-util.c
> +++ b/qapi/qapi-util.c
> @@ -37,6 +37,9 @@ static bool compat_policy_input_ok1(CompatPolicyInput 
> policy,
>                    adjective, kind, name);
>          return false;
>      case COMPAT_POLICY_INPUT_CRASH:
> +        error_report("%s %s %s disabled by policy, aborting",
> +                    adjective, kind, name);

miss-aligned

-- 
Marc-André Lureau <[email protected]>


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