[libvirt] [PATCH 03/13] Fix logging of failed iptables commands

[Eric Blake]

On 12/20/2010 01:03 AM, Laine Stump wrote:
> The functions in iptables.c all return -1 on failure, but all their
> callers (which all happen to be in bridge_driver.c) assume that they
> are returning an errno, and the logging is done accordingly. This
> patch fixes all the error checking and logging to assume < 0 is an
> error, and nothing else.
> ---
>  src/network/bridge_driver.c |  183 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  1 files changed, 91 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)

Do any of the iptables.c functions guarantee that errno is a sane value
when returning -1?

> -        virReportSystemError(err,
> -                             _("failed to add iptables rule to allow forwarding from '%s'"),
> -                             network->def->bridge);
> +    if (iptablesAddForwardAllowOut(driver->iptables,
> +                                   &network->def->ipAddress,
> +                                   &network->def->netmask,
> +                                   network->def->bridge,
> +                                   network->def->forwardDev) < 0) {
> +        networkReportError(VIR_ERR_SYSTEM_ERROR,
> +                           _("failed to add iptables rule to allow forwarding from '%s'"),
> +                           network->def->bridge);

or are we okay with this slightly less-informative message, if we happen
to be ignoring a valid errno?  Then again, given that the old code was
using strerror(-1), which doesn't convey any information, we aren't
really losing anything in practice from the old code by not displaying
errno, even if iptables guaranteed that errno was useful.  Therefore:

ACK as-is.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake at redhat.com    +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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