When a block job fails, we report 'strerror(-job->job.ret)' error message, also if the job set an error object. Let's report a better error message using 'error_get_pretty(job->job.err)'.
If an error object was not set, strerror(-job->ret) is used as fallback, as explained in include/qemu/job.h: typedef struct Job { ... /** * Error object for a failed job. * If job->ret is nonzero and an error object was not set, it will be set * to strerror(-job->ret) during job_completed. */ Error *err; } Suggested-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> --- blockjob.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/blockjob.c b/blockjob.c index f2feff051d..a696f3408d 100644 --- a/blockjob.c +++ b/blockjob.c @@ -319,7 +319,8 @@ BlockJobInfo *block_job_query(BlockJob *job, Error **errp) info->auto_finalize = job->job.auto_finalize; info->auto_dismiss = job->job.auto_dismiss; info->has_error = job->job.ret != 0; - info->error = job->job.ret ? g_strdup(strerror(-job->job.ret)) : NULL; + info->error = job->job.ret ? + g_strdup(error_get_pretty(job->job.err)) : NULL; return info; } @@ -356,7 +357,7 @@ static void block_job_event_completed(Notifier *n, void *opaque) } if (job->job.ret < 0) { - msg = strerror(-job->job.ret); + msg = error_get_pretty(job->job.err); } qapi_event_send_block_job_completed(job_type(&job->job), -- 2.29.2