[libvirt] [PATCH] tools: console: Relax stream EOF handling

[Nikolay Shirokovskiy]

On 08.08.2019 21:00, Daniel Henrique Barboza wrote:
> (CCing Nikolay Shirokovskiy, author of  29f2b5248c )
> 
> On 8/7/19 8:34 AM, Roman Bolshakov wrote:
>> An attempt to poweroff a VM from inside triggers the error for existing
>> session of virsh console and it returns with non-zero exit code:
>>    error: internal error: console stream EOF
>>
>> The message and status code are misleading because there's no real
>> error.

Hi, all. 

Sorry for the late response, I was on a long vacation and have very limited
access to the internet.

Yes, the commit 29f2b5248c6 introduced printing this error if domain was
shutdowned. This can be unnecessary if the person who run the console
is the person who shutdowned the domain. But it is not so if these are
two different persons. Also what if domain is not shutdowned but rather
crashed? So I think it is make sense to leave the message as it is.

Nikolay


>>
>> Fixes: 29f2b5248c6 ("tools: console: pass stream/fd errors to user")
>> Signed-off-by: Roman Bolshakov <r.bolshakov at yadro.com>
>> ---
>>   tools/virsh-console.c | 4 ----
>>   1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/virsh-console.c b/tools/virsh-console.c
>> index e16f841e57..408a745b0f 100644
>> --- a/tools/virsh-console.c
>> +++ b/tools/virsh-console.c
>> @@ -172,10 +172,6 @@ virConsoleEventOnStream(virStreamPtr st,
>>           if (got == -2)
>>               goto cleanup; /* blocking */
>>           if (got <= 0) {
>> -            if (got == 0)
>> -                virReportError(VIR_ERR_INTERNAL_ERROR, "%s",
>> -                               _("console stream EOF"));
>> -
> 
> I appreciate if we can remove the 'console stream EOF' error message
> that started to appear even in regular VM shutdown, but I'm not sure
> if this is the right fix.
> 
> 'got' is the result of virStreamRecv(). Seeing the code documentation of
> this function we have:
> 
> (src/libvirt-stream.c)
> 
>  * Returns the number of bytes read, which may be less
>  * than requested.
>  *
>  * Returns 0 when the end of the stream is reached, at
>  * which time the caller should invoke virStreamFinish()
>  * to get confirmation of stream completion.
>  *
>  * Returns -1 upon error [....]
> 
> 
> And this is the doc for virStreamFinish():
> 
>  * This method is a synchronization point for all asynchronous
>  * errors, so if this returns a success code the application can
>  * be sure that all data has been successfully processed.
> 
> 
> In the existing code we're not calling 'virStreamFinish()' to assert whether
> the got=0 from virStreamRecv is a successful shutdown or not, we're
> simply reporting an internal error assuming that something went wrong.
> 
> Shouldn't we call virStreamFinish if got=0 and only report an error if
> virStreamFinish returns -1? Does that suffice to fix this error message
> being thrown when the VM does a regular shutdown?
> 
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> DHB
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
>>               virConsoleShutdown(con);
>>               goto cleanup;
>>           }
>