[libvirt] [PATCH] virterror: Don't invoke error callback for ERR_OK
Cole Robinson
crobinso at redhat.com
Wed Jan 13 12:45:51 UTC 2010
On 01/13/2010 04:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:57:33PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>> On 01/12/2010 03:48 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 03:26:28PM -0500, Cole Robinson wrote:
>>>> Since virDispatchError is now responsible for invoking the error callback,
>>>> give it the same semantics as ReportError, which will skip VIR_ERR_OK
>>>> (which is encountered when no error was raised).
>>>>
>>>> This fixes invoking the error callback after every non-erroring API call.
>>>>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com>
>>>> ---
>>>> src/util/virterror.c | 6 +++++-
>>>> 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>>>
>>>> diff --git a/src/util/virterror.c b/src/util/virterror.c
>>>> index e2128b9..78974ee 100644
>>>> --- a/src/util/virterror.c
>>>> +++ b/src/util/virterror.c
>>>> @@ -603,8 +603,12 @@ virDispatchError(virConnectPtr conn)
>>>> if (!err)
>>>> return;
>>>>
>>>> - /* Set a generic error message if none is already set */
>>>> + /* We never used to raise ERR_OK, so maintain existing behavior */
>>>> if (err->code == VIR_ERR_OK)
>>>> + return;
>>>> +
>>>> + /* Set a generic error message if none is already set */
>>>> + if (!err->message)
>>>> virErrorGenericFailure(err);
>>>>
>>>> /* Copy the global error to per-connection error if needed */
>>>
>>> We should only ever be invoking virDispatchError() in error paths, so
>>> if err->code == VIR_ERR_OK, this means we do need set a generic message
>>> because the earlier code indicated an error but forgot to report one.
>>> So I don't think this is correct.
>>>
>>
>> Ah, I think I wanted to check VIR_ERR_NONE here actually.
>> virDispatchError is called regardless of whether an error is actually
>> raised, so it may receive a zero'd out/empty virLastErrorObject, which
>> is what I'm trying to avoid reporting.
>
> I still don't think you are correct in that. If you run
>
> # grep --after 1 virDispatchError libvirt.c
> virDispatchError(NULL);
> return (-1);
> --
> virDispatchError(net->conn);
> return -1;
> --
> virDispatchError(NULL);
> return (-1);
> --
> virDispatchError(pool->conn);
> return -1;
>
> Then all cases where virDispatchError() is called should be followed by the
> return of an error code, 99% of them are -1 or NULL. There are one or two
> where we use '0' for error as a special case. I don't see any places where
> virDispatchError() is called in a successful return path. So we should
> always be invoking the error callback, and ensuring an error is actually
> set before doing so.
>
Whoops, sorry for the confusion. I'll investigate more.
Thanks,
Cole
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