[PATCH 2/3] domain_conf: Move zPCI validation from formatter to validator

Andrea Bolognani abologna at redhat.com
Mon Jun 29 10:27:05 UTC 2020


On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 12:01 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> On 6/29/20 11:58 AM, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > On Mon, 2020-06-29 at 09:43 +0200, Michal Privoznik wrote:
> > > +++ b/src/qemu/qemu_validate.c
> > > @@ -1028,6 +1028,12 @@ qemuValidateDomainDeviceDefZPCIAddress(virDomainDeviceInfoPtr info,
> > >           return -1;
> > >       }
> > >   
> > > +    if (virDeviceInfoPCIAddressExtensionIsWanted(info)) {
> > > +        virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, "%s",
> > > +                       _("Missing uid or fid attribute of zPCI address"));
> > > +        return -1;
> > > +    }
> > 
> > Throwing an XML_ERROR here doesn't seem right, because from the
> > user's point of view it's perfectly fine to only provide a partial
> > zPCI address: by the point we get here, we've already gone through
> > the PostParse callback, so if either attribute is missing that's
> > because of a developer mistake.
> > 
> > Do we even need this check at all? I'm the one who asked for it to
> > be introduced, but now I'm questioning that :)
> > 
> 
> Maybe we don't need it then. Regardless, it doesn't belong into XML 
> formatter. Should I post a v2 where the check is removed?

I think so, yes. If someone finds a flaw in my reasoning, we still
have a week to change it back.

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Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization




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