Re: [Qemu-trivial] [PATCH v2 1/2] pc_sysfw: Check for qemu_find_file() failure

[Stefan Hajnoczi]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2012 at 03:28:05PM +0100, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> pc_fw_add_pflash_drv() ignores qemu_find_file() failure, and happily
> creates a drive without a medium.
> 
> When pc_system_flash_init() asks for its size, bdrv_getlength() fails
> with -ENOMEDIUM, which isn't checked either.  It fails relatively
> cleanly only because -ENOMEDIUM isn't a multiple of 4096:
> 
>     $ qemu-system-x86_64 -S -vnc :0 -bios nonexistant
>     qemu: PC system firmware (pflash) must be a multiple of 0x1000
>     [Exit 1 ]
> 
> Fix by handling the qemu_find_file() failure.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> ---
> v2: Don't report errno, because that can produce misleading error
> messages.  For instance, when "seabios/out/bios.bin" is unreadable, we
> fall back to $data_dir/seabios/out/bios.bin, which doesn't exist, and
> then report "seabios/out/bios.bin: No such file or directory".  No other
> caller reports errno.
> 
>  hw/pc_sysfw.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

Thanks, applied to the trivial patches tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/trivial-patches

Stefan