On Thu, Jan 12, 2017 at 5:01 AM, Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 01/11 15:51, Eric Blake wrote:
>> On 01/11/2017 12:24 PM, Nir Soffer wrote:
>> > From: Nir Soffer <nsof...@redhat.com>
>> >
>> > The result of openfile was not checked, leading to failure deep in the
>> > actual command with confusing error message, and exiting with exit code 0.
>> >
>> > Here is one example - trying to read a pattern from an invalid chain:
>> >
>> >     $ qemu-io -c 'read -P 1 0 1024' top.qcow2; echo $?
>>
>> As written, you have to guess some context about how top.qcow2 was
>> created.  The example can be made a bit more reproducible with:
>>
>> $ : > file
>> $ qemu-io -f qcow2 -c ... file
>
> Nir, thank you for the fix. Could you also add a regression test in
> tests/qemu-iotests?

Sure, will look into it.

>
> Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com>
>
>>
>> >     can't open device top.qcow2: Could not open backing file: Image is not 
>> > in qcow2 format
>> >     no file open, try 'help open'
>> >     0
>> >
>> > With this patch, we fail earlier with exit code 1:
>> >
>> >     $ ./qemu-io -c 'read -P 1 0 1024' top.qcow2; echo $?
>> >     can't open device top.qcow2: Could not open backing file: Image is not
>> >     in qcow2 format
>> >     1
>> >
>> > Signed-off-by: Nir Soffer <nir...@gmail.com>
>> > ---
>> >  qemu-io.c | 8 ++++++--
>> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> Whether or not the commit message is improved,
>> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com>

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