[PATCH] network: bridge_driver: Use new helpers for storing libvirt errors

Laine Stump laine at redhat.com
Tue Feb 25 18:59:29 UTC 2020


On 2/25/20 1:10 PM, Gaurav Agrawal wrote:
> Hi Laine,
> 
> I am sure that I did --subject-prefix , not sure why it did not landed.
> 
> Now am wondering about this situation do I still need a PATCH-3 or it's 
> handled ?

Nah, Jano pointed out what I thought of late last night - this is 
different from the traditional use cases that the task-list wanted to 
have removed - it saves the error to re-use it multiple times in the 
future, so  virErrorRestore() would actually do the *wrong* thing here. 
And since virErrorPreserveLast() is intended to be used in a pair with 
virErrorRestore(), there is actually nothing to do here.

And even beyond that, when I looked at the list of remaining cases of 
virSaveLastError() for more than the 10 seconds I looked last night, I 
see (as Jano pointed out) that all the cases that should be converted, 
already *were* converted.

The only problem is that the person who did the converted didn't know 
that was a task on the bite-sized tasks list, so they didn't remove it.

Jano has now updated the task list to remove stale entries. So maybe you 
can find something else on that list to fix.

Sorry for sending you through all this. On the upside, your .gitconfig 
is now in order :-)


> 
> Thanks for giving your one last pass!
> 
> Best Regards
> Gaurav
> 
> On Tue, Feb 25, 2020, 22:46 Laine Stump <laine at redhat.com 
> <mailto:laine at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 2/25/20 7:37 AM, Ján Tomko wrote:
>      > On Mon, Feb 24, 2020 at 10:09:05PM -0500, Laine Stump wrote:
>      >> On 2/24/20 1:58 PM, Gaurav Agrawal wrote:
>      >>
>      >
>      > Yes, networkSetupPrivateChains is only called once (via virOnce, as
>      > suggested by the comment on the top of the function) on
>     initialization
>      > and if either IPv4 or IPv6 chains could not be created, it sets the
>      > dirver-global error, which is then called on any subsequent attempt
>      > to use it.
>      >
>      > So this is not really a case that needs to be converted.
>      > In fact, glancing at git gre virSetError it seems we already got rid
>      > of all the ones worth converting.
> 
> 
>     I could have sworn that when I looked last night there were a
>     handful of
>     virSaveLastError() calls, and that I looked at one that was paired with
>     virSetError(). But when I look now I see that all the
>     virSaveLastError()
>     calls remaining are strange "save this for later" type things rather
>     than "save this for a second while we clean up the mess".
> 
> 
>     It looks like jferlan pushed a bunch of patches in Dec 2018 to do all
>     the valid replacements, but the item was never removed from the
>     bite-sized tasks list (he might have fixed them without even knowing
>     about the item on the list). I just went to the wiki to remove it and
>     see that Jano has already taken care of it!
> 
> 
>      >
>      >
>      >>
>      >> Your patch has replaced the virSaveLastError() of the earlier part
>      >> with virErrorPreserveLast(), but hasn't replaced the
>     virSetError() of
>      >> the later part (which is down in networkAddFirewallRules()) with
>      >> virErrorRestore().
>      >
>      > virErrorRestore resets the error, which is not what we want here -
>      > any subsequent calls should report the same error we caught when
>      > initializing.
> 
> 
>     Yeah, I realized that was probably the case in the middle of the night
>     last night, but wasn't at the keyboard to chastise myself. I knew I
>     should have just gone to bed instead of sitting down for one last
>     pass...
> 
> 
>     But anyway the upside is that Guarav got git send-email configured
>     properly to send future patches (while we're on the topic of workflow -
>     when you send a modified/updated version of a patch, be sure to note
>     that in the subject, e.g. with "--subject-prefix="PATCHv2").
> 
> 
> 




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