[libvirt] [PATCH 2/2] libvirt-rust Fix Stream::send

Sahid Orentino Ferdjaoui sahid.ferdjaoui at canonical.com
Wed Oct 16 11:49:51 UTC 2019


On Fri, Sep 20, 2019 at 10:02:47AM +0200, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 19, 2019 at 05:48:49AM +0000, Linus Färnstrand wrote:
> > * Handle the -2 error case
> > * Allow sending arbitrary byte array, not just UTF-8 strings
> > * Fix FFI declaration, takes size_t, not c_uint
> > * Return usize to be more idiomatic (type used for slice indexing)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Linus Färnstrand <faern at faern.net>
> > ---
> > src/stream.rs | 21 ++++++++++-----------
> > 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/src/stream.rs b/src/stream.rs
> > index af6c8ec..2ca5d0b 100644
> > --- a/src/stream.rs
> > +++ b/src/stream.rs
> > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ pub mod sys {
> > extern "C" {
> >     fn virStreamSend(c: sys::virStreamPtr,
> >                      data: *const libc::c_char,
> > -                     nbytes: libc::c_uint)
> > +                     nbytes: libc::size_t)
> >                      -> libc::c_int;
> >     fn virStreamRecv(c: sys::virStreamPtr,
> >                      data: *mut libc::c_char,
> > @@ -105,16 +105,15 @@ impl Stream {
> >         }
> >     }
> > 
> > -    pub fn send(&self, data: &str) -> Result<u32, Error> {
> > -        unsafe {
> > -            let ret = virStreamSend(self.as_ptr(),
> > -                                    string_to_c_chars!(data),
> > -                                    data.len() as libc::c_uint);
> > -            if ret == -1 {
> > -                return Err(Error::new());
> > -            }
> > -            return Ok(ret as u32);
> > -        }
> > +    pub fn send(&self, data: &[u8]) -> Result<usize, Error> {
> > +        let ret = unsafe {
> > +            virStreamSend(
> > +                self.as_ptr(),
> > +                data.as_ptr() as *mut libc::c_char,
> > +                data.len()
> > +            )
> > +        };
> > +        usize::try_from(ret).map_err(|_| Error::new())
> 
> I guess same as the comment form the first patch should be applied here, but we
> might need to even change the return value so that it is properly distinguished
> as here it has yet another meaning.  Are you basing this on some of your work on
> top of libvirt-rust?  Is this the easy to use (semi-)properly?  If yes, we might
> just as well keep it this way as it is still way better than what we have now.

I think the patch is good as it is now. Of-course distinguish between
-1 and -2 would be the ideal but even previously that was not the
case. We could still improve it in the future.

Thank you Linus for your patch.

I will push it Martin if you don't have objection.

Thanks,
s.

> >     }
> > 
> >     pub fn recv(&self, buf: &mut [u8]) -> Result<usize, Error> {
> > --
> > 2.21.0
> > 
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