From: Juraj Marcin <jmar...@redhat.com> Commit 48814111366b ("migration: Always set DEVICE state") introduced DEVICE state to postcopy, which moved the actual state transition that leads to POSTCOPY_ACTIVE.
However, the error handling part of the postcopy_start() function still expects the state POSTCOPY_ACTIVE, but depending on where an error happens, now the state can be either ACTIVE, DEVICE or CANCELLING, but never POSTCOPY_ACTIVE, as this transition now happens just before a successful return from the function. Instead, accept any state except CANCELLING when transitioning to FAILED state. Cc: qemu-sta...@nongnu.org Fixes: 48814111366b ("migration: Always set DEVICE state") Signed-off-by: Juraj Marcin <jmar...@redhat.com> --- In the RFC[1] where this patch was discussed, there was also a suggestion for a helper function migrate_set_failure() that would check if the state is not CANCELLING and then set migration error and FAILED state. I discussed the implementation with Peter, and we came to a conclusion that instead of patching such clean-up on top of the current error handling code, it might be more useful to do a larger refactor and clean-up of all error handling in the migration code. Such clean-up should reduce the number of places where we need to explicitly transition to a FAILED state (ideally to one, or only a couple of places), and instead only set an appropriate migration error using migrate_set_error(). Additionally, it would also refactor inappropriate uses of QEMUFile errors where the error is not really an error of the underlying channel and migrate_set_error() should be used instead. [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250807114922.1013286-3-jmar...@redhat.com/ --- migration/migration.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/migration/migration.c b/migration/migration.c index 10c216d25d..32b8ce5613 100644 --- a/migration/migration.c +++ b/migration/migration.c @@ -2872,8 +2872,9 @@ static int postcopy_start(MigrationState *ms, Error **errp) fail_closefb: qemu_fclose(fb); fail: - migrate_set_state(&ms->state, MIGRATION_STATUS_POSTCOPY_ACTIVE, - MIGRATION_STATUS_FAILED); + if (ms->state != MIGRATION_STATUS_CANCELLING) { + migrate_set_state(&ms->state, ms->state, MIGRATION_STATUS_FAILED); + } migration_block_activate(NULL); migration_call_notifiers(ms, MIG_EVENT_PRECOPY_FAILED, NULL); bql_unlock(); -- 2.50.1