Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] conf: Report sensible error for invalid disk name

The error "... but the cause is unknown" appeared for XMLs similar to this: <disk type='file' device='cdrom'> <driver name='qemu' type='raw'/> <source file='/dev/zero'/> <target dev='sr0'/> </disk> Notice unsupported disk type (for the driver), but also no address specified. The first part is not a problem and we should not abort immediately because of that, but the combination with the address unknown was causing an unspecified error. --- src/util/util.c | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/util/util.c b/src/util/util.c index 75b18c1..d5b2c97 100644 --- a/src/util/util.c +++ b/src/util/util.c @@ -2189,8 +2189,12 @@ int virDiskNameToIndex(const char *name) { } } - if (!ptr) + if (!ptr) { + virReportError(VIR_ERR_XML_ERROR, + _("Unknown disk name '%s' and no address specified"), + name); return -1; + } for (i = 0; *ptr; i++) { idx = (idx + (i < 1 ? 0 : 1)) * 26;