On 10/18/2012 04:43 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
On 10/18/2012 01:19 PM, Corey Bryant wrote:
This option can be used for passing file descriptors on the command line. It mirrors the existing add-fd QMP command which allows an fd to be passed to QEMU via SCM_RIGHTS and added to an fd set.
This can be combined with commands such as -drive to link file descriptors in an fd set to a drive:
qemu-kvm -add-fd fd=3,set=2,opaque="rdwr:/path/to/file" -add-fd fd=4,set=2,opaque="rdonly:/path/to/file" -drive file=/dev/fdset/2,index=0,media=disk
This example adds dups of fds 3 and 4, and the accompanying opaque strings to the fd set with ID=2. qemu_open() already knows how to handle a filename of this format. qemu_open() searches the corresponding fd set for an fd and when it finds a match, QEMU goes on to use a dup of that fd just like it would have used an fd that it opened itself.
Signed-off-by: Corey Bryant <coreyb@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+ + if (fcntl(fd, F_GETFD) & FD_CLOEXEC) { + qerror_report(ERROR_CLASS_GENERIC_ERROR, + "fd is not valid or already in use"); + return -1; + }
Hmm, I was about to call you on the fact that you didn't check whether fcntl() succeeded; but then realized that in the failure case it is required by POSIX to return -1 which happens to include the FD_CLOEXEC bit, so you actually ended up with a sneaky optimization that does the right thing for both open and closed fds.
Yep it works for both cases. I have to admit I stumbled into this at first and then decided to leave it this way since it worked. :)
Perhaps a comment in the code is warranted (after all, it is not immediately apparent from reading just this if statement why it works); maybe "/* All fds inherited across exec() necessarily have FD_CLOEXEC clear, while qemu sets FD_CLOEXEC on all other fds opened from command line arguments */". But I'm not going to require a v5 just for a comment addition.
I agree, a comment would be useful. Maybe Kevin can add if this series gets pushed?
Series: Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Thanks for reviewing! -- Regards, Corey Bryant