[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix error report from nl_recvmsg

[Laine Stump]

On 02/28/2013 08:37 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
>
> The nl_recvmsg does not always set errno. Instead it returns
> its own custom set of error codes. Thus we were reporting the
> wrong data.
> ---
>  src/util/virnetlink.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/util/virnetlink.c b/src/util/virnetlink.c
> index 0b36fdc..8b47ede 100644
> --- a/src/util/virnetlink.c
> +++ b/src/util/virnetlink.c
> @@ -335,8 +335,9 @@ virNetlinkEventCallback(int watch,
>      if (length == 0)
>          return;
>      if (length < 0) {
> -        virReportSystemError(errno,
> -                             "%s", _("nl_recv returned with error"));
> +        virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR,
> +                       _("nl_recv returned with error: %s"),
> +                       nl_geterror(length));

My recollection is that we specifically avoided calling nl_geterror()
because it isn't threadsafe.

I'll go take another look to verify.