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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] memsave: Improve and disambiguate error messa
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Michael Tokarev |
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Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH] memsave: Improve and disambiguate error message |
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Tue, 10 Feb 2015 22:06:57 +0300 |
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08.02.2015 15:14, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 08, 2015 at 11:09:24AM +0100, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
>> Cc: address@hidden
>
> Thanks.
>
> But, there's more b0rked with this error message so you might wanna take
> the patch below instead.
>
> Btw, what are the vim settings when doing patches for qemu, this must be
> documented somewhere as coding style differs significantly from that of
> the kernel?
>
> :-)
>
> ---
> From: Borislav Petkov <address@hidden>
> Subject: [PATCH] memsave: Improve and disambiguate error message
>
> When requesting a size which cannot be read, the error message shows
> a different address which is misleading to the user and it looks like
> something's wrong with the address parsing. This is because the input
> @addr variable is incremented in the memory dumping loop:
Applied this version to -trivial, thank you!
/mjt
> (qemu) memsave 0xffffffff8418069c 0xb00000 mem
> Invalid addr 0xffffffff849ffe9c specified
>
> Fix that by saving the original address and size and use them in the
> error message:
>
> (qemu) memsave 0xffffffff8418069c 0xb00000 mem
> Invalid addr 0xffffffff8418069c/size 11534336 specified
>
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
> Cc: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <address@hidden>
> ---
> cpus.c | 4 +++-
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/cpus.c b/cpus.c
> index 0cdd1d71560b..a5c7cad00fc9 100644
> --- a/cpus.c
> +++ b/cpus.c
> @@ -1466,6 +1466,7 @@ void qmp_memsave(int64_t addr, int64_t size, const char
> *filename,
> uint32_t l;
> CPUState *cpu;
> uint8_t buf[1024];
> + int64_t orig_addr = addr, orig_size = size;
>
> if (!has_cpu) {
> cpu_index = 0;
> @@ -1489,7 +1490,8 @@ void qmp_memsave(int64_t addr, int64_t size, const char
> *filename,
> if (l > size)
> l = size;
> if (cpu_memory_rw_debug(cpu, addr, buf, l, 0) != 0) {
> - error_setg(errp, "Invalid addr 0x%016" PRIx64 "specified", addr);
> + error_setg(errp, "Invalid addr 0x%016" PRIx64 "/size %" PRId64
> + " specified", orig_addr, orig_size);
> goto exit;
> }
> if (fwrite(buf, 1, l, f) != l) {
>