[libvirt] [PATCH] storage_backend_fs.c: do not ignore probe failure

[Jim Meyering]

Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:40:26AM +0100, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> When virStorageBackendProbeTarget fails, it returns -1 or -2.
>> The two uses below obviously intended to handle those cases
>> differently, but due to a wrong comparison, they always treated a
>> "real" (e.g., open) failure (-1) just like an ignorable "wrong file type"
>> failure (-2).
>>
>> FYI, coverity reported that the "goto cleanup" statement was
>> unreachable, which was true in each case, but hardly the real problem.
...
>
> I don't understand how this is making any difference. The method
> virStorageBackendProbeTarget can return 0, -1 or -2, so
>
>     virStorageBackendProbeTarget < 0  catches the -1 and -2 cases
>     virStorageBackendProbeTarget != 0 catches the -1 and -2 cases
>
> I only see this change making a difference if one of the error return values
> is a positive integer greater than 0, but we don't have that here. What am
> I missing ?

Good catch.
I changed the wrong thing.  Real problem: misplaced ")".
Here's the correct patch:

>From 8834728541e38c6843c6941457596bba18ca4ae3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:34:53 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] storage_backend_fs.c: do not ignore probe failure

* src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c (virStorageBackendFileSystemRefresh):
Correct parentheses.  The documented intent is to ignore non-regular
files, yet due to a parenthesization error all errors were handled
that way.
---
 src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c b/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
index 4fe40b3..b03e4e9 100644
--- a/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
+++ b/src/storage/storage_backend_fs.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * storage_backend_fs.c: storage backend for FS and directory handling
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2007-2009 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2007-2010 Red Hat, Inc.
  * Copyright (C) 2007-2008 Daniel P. Berrange
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ virStorageBackendFileSystemRefresh(virConnectPtr conn,
                                                 &backingStore,
                                                 &vol->allocation,
                                                 &vol->capacity,
-                                                &vol->target.encryption) < 0)) {
+                                                &vol->target.encryption)) < 0) {
             if (ret == -1)
                 goto cleanup;
             else {
--
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