[Libvir] [PATCH] Don't throw away errors in virConnectOpen (at least not so often)

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Wed May 2 13:31:44 UTC 2007


On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:15:11AM -0400, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 03:04:32PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > Error messages, I like them.  I don't like them to be thrown away.
> > 
> > A nice feature of virterror is that it'll throw away errors under the 
> > following conditions:
> > (1) You are in virConnectOpen, and
> > (2) You pass a non-NULL virConnectPtr to __virRaiseError.
> > 
> > libvirt has a lot of errors which meet those conditions - the attached 
> > patch fixes the ones I could find.
> > 
> > It also fixes qemuOpenConnection so that it doesn't try to open a Unix 
> > socket with random stack data.
> > 
> > It also adds error messages in some useful places where previously there 
> > was an error, but no message.
> 
>   In general that looks okay, but instead of passing NULL as the first
> argument can't we do a selection in __virRaiseError instead based on the
> type of error and just avoid virConnectOpen errors which are not related to
> unavailability of the virtualization ?

That doesn't make sense to me. The issue here is that libvirt has two places
where it stores error details for the caller:

  - The global error object
  - The per-connection error object

If the virConnectOpen call fails, then the caller has no virConnectPtr object
available. So every codepath in virConnectOpen should be using the global
error object & hence always be passing NULL to __virRaiseError. So I think
Rich's patch is already doing the correct thing AFAICT

Dan.
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