On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 09:30:30AM +0200, Manos Pitsidianakis wrote:
> In cases where a device tries to read more bytes than the block device
> contains with the blk_check_size_and_read_all() function, the error is
> vague: "device requires X bytes, block backend provides Y bytes".
> 
> This patch changes the errors of this function to include the block
> backend name, the device id and device type name where appropriate.
> 
> Version 3:
> - Changed phrasing "%s device with id='%s'" to "%s device '%s'" since
>   second parameter might be either device id or device path.
>     (thanks Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>)
> 
> Version 2:
> - Assert dev is not NULL on qdev_get_human_name
>     (thanks Phil Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@linaro.org>)
> 
> Manos Pitsidianakis (2):
>   hw/core/qdev.c: add qdev_get_human_name()
>   hw/block/block.c: improve confusing blk_check_size_and_read_all()
>     error
> 
>  include/hw/block/block.h |  4 ++--
>  include/hw/qdev-core.h   | 14 ++++++++++++++
>  hw/block/block.c         | 25 +++++++++++++++----------
>  hw/block/m25p80.c        |  3 ++-
>  hw/block/pflash_cfi01.c  |  4 ++--
>  hw/block/pflash_cfi02.c  |  2 +-
>  hw/core/qdev.c           |  8 ++++++++
>  7 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> Range-diff against v2:
> 1:  5fb5879708 ! 1:  8b566bfced hw/core/qdev.c: add qdev_get_human_name()
>     @@ Commit message
>          Add a simple method to return some kind of human readable identifier 
> for
>          use in error messages.
>      
>     +    Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com>
>          Signed-off-by: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidiana...@linaro.org>
>      
>       ## include/hw/qdev-core.h ##
> 2:  8e7eb17fbd ! 2:  7260eadff2 hw/block/block.c: improve confusing 
> blk_check_size_and_read_all() error
>     @@ hw/block/block.c: static int blk_pread_nonzeroes(BlockBackend *blk, 
> hwaddr size,
>      -                   "block backend provides %" PRIu64 " bytes",
>      -                   size, blk_len);
>      +        dev_id = qdev_get_human_name(dev);
>     -+        error_setg(errp, "%s device with id='%s' requires %" HWADDR_PRIu
>     ++        error_setg(errp, "%s device '%s' requires %" HWADDR_PRIu
>      +                   " bytes, %s block backend provides %" PRIu64 " 
> bytes",
>      +                   object_get_typename(OBJECT(dev)), dev_id, size,
>      +                   blk_name(blk), blk_len);
>     @@ hw/block/block.c: bool blk_check_size_and_read_all(BlockBackend *blk, 
> void *buf,
>      -        error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "can't read block backend");
>      +        dev_id = qdev_get_human_name(dev);
>      +        error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "can't read %s block backend"
>     -+                         "for %s device with id='%s'",
>     ++                         " for %s device '%s'",
>      +                         blk_name(blk), 
> object_get_typename(OBJECT(dev)),
>      +                         dev_id);
>               return false;
> 
> base-commit: 11be70677c70fdccd452a3233653949b79e97908
> -- 
> γαῖα πυρί μιχθήτω
> 

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://gitlab.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan

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