[libvirt] [PATCH 3/7] virfile: Need to check for ENOTCONN from recvfd failure

Eric Blake eblake at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 20:15:37 UTC 2015


On 01/28/2015 03:25 PM, John Ferlan wrote:
> A gnulib change (commit id 'beae0bdc') causes ENOTCONN to be returned
> from recvfd which causes us to fall into the throwaway waitpid() call
> and return ENOTCONN to the caller, this then gets displayed during
> a 'virsh save' when using a root squashed NFS environment that's trying
> to save the file as something other than root:root.
> 
> This patch will add the additional check for ENOTCONN to force the code
> into the waitpid loop looking for the actual status from the _exit()'d
> child fork.
> 
> Signed-off-by: John Ferlan <jferlan at redhat.com>
> ---
>  src/util/virfile.c | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

ACK.  It goes away in your later bigger patch, but doing this makes
backports of a trivial fix without the risk of a refactor bug easier.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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