[PATCH 3/3] qemuSnapshotFSFreeze: Don't return -2

Pavel Hrdina phrdina at redhat.com
Tue Feb 16 08:52:07 UTC 2021


On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 09:46:42AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 19:20:25 +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 06:27:51PM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > > The -2 value is misleading because if 'qemuAgentFSFreeze' fails it
> > > doesn't necessarily mean that the command was sent to the agent.
> > > 
> > > Since callers don't care about the -2 value specifically, remove it.
> > 
> > In addition this indirectly fixes virDomainFSFreeze public API where
> > we return result of qemuSnapshotFSFreeze directly. Now we comply with
> > the API description.
> 
> Luckily -2 happens only internally, so we never broke any public API
> promise:
> 
> This is caused by virNetServerProgramDispatchCall treating any negative
> value as error and transporting it over RPC and then
> virNetClientProgramCall in the client returning -1 if the returned reply
> is of VIR_NET_ERROR type.

Well, lucky for us :) I did not count RPC and the fact that even local
connection will use remote driver for QEMU.

Pavel
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