This gives more information about the failure. Additionally 'ENOSYS' returned for a non-Linux platforms instead of 'errno', which is not initilaized in this case.
Signed-off-by: Ilya Maximets <i.maxim...@samsung.com> --- util/memfd.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/util/memfd.c b/util/memfd.c index 393d23da96..00334e5b21 100644 --- a/util/memfd.c +++ b/util/memfd.c @@ -71,14 +71,18 @@ int qemu_memfd_create(const char *name, size_t size, bool hugetlb, } mfd = memfd_create(name, flags); if (mfd < 0) { + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, + "failed to create memfd with flags 0x%x", flags); goto err; } if (ftruncate(mfd, size) == -1) { + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "failed to resize memfd to %zu", size); goto err; } if (seals && fcntl(mfd, F_ADD_SEALS, seals) == -1) { + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "failed to add seals 0x%x", seals); goto err; } @@ -88,8 +92,9 @@ err: if (mfd >= 0) { close(mfd); } +#else + error_setg_errno(errp, ENOSYS, "failed to create memfd"); #endif - error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "failed to create memfd"); return -1; } -- 2.17.1