[Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block/curl: Don't lose original error when a connection fails.

[Richard W.M. Jones]

Currently if qemu is connected to a curl source (eg. web server), and
the web server fails / times out / dies, you always see a bogus EIO
"Input/output error".

For example, choose a large file located on any local webserver which
you control:

  $ qemu-img convert -p http://example.com/large.iso /tmp/test

Once it starts copying the file, stop the webserver and you will see
qemu-img fail with:

  qemu-img: error while reading sector 61440: Input/output error

This patch does two things: Firstly print the actual error from curl
so it doesn't get lost.  Secondly, change EIO to EPROTO.  EPROTO is a
POSIX.1 compatible errno which more accurately reflects that there was
a protocol error, rather than some kind of hardware failure.

After this patch is applied, the error changes to:

  $ qemu-img convert -p http://example.com/large.iso /tmp/test
  qemu-img: curl: transfer closed with 469989 bytes remaining to read
  qemu-img: error while reading sector 16384: Protocol error

Signed-off-by: Richard W.M. Jones <address@hidden>
---
 block/curl.c | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/block/curl.c b/block/curl.c
index 3a2b63e..2fd7c06 100644
--- a/block/curl.c
+++ b/block/curl.c
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@
  * THE SOFTWARE.
  */
 #include "qemu-common.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "block/block_int.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qbool.h"
 #include "qapi/qmp/qstring.h"
@@ -298,6 +299,12 @@ static void curl_multi_check_completion(BDRVCURLState *s)
             /* ACBs for successful messages get completed in curl_read_cb */
             if (msg->data.result != CURLE_OK) {
                 int i;
+
+                /* Don't lose the original error message from curl, since
+                 * it contains extra data.
+                 */
+                error_report("curl: %s", state->errmsg);
+
                 for (i = 0; i < CURL_NUM_ACB; i++) {
                     CURLAIOCB *acb = state->acb[i];
 
@@ -305,7 +312,7 @@ static void curl_multi_check_completion(BDRVCURLState *s)
                         continue;
                     }
 
-                    acb->common.cb(acb->common.opaque, -EIO);
+                    acb->common.cb(acb->common.opaque, -EPROTO);
                     qemu_aio_unref(acb);
                     state->acb[i] = NULL;
                 }
-- 
2.3.1