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

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 08:39:56PM +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> 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(-)

According to scripts/get_maintainer.pl this patch goes via Jeff Cody.

Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <address@hidden>

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