[libvirt] [PATCH] Fix detection of errors in QEMU device_add command

2 Mar 2010

The code assumed that 'device_add' returned an empty string upon
success. This is not true, it sometimes prints random debug info.
THus we need to check for an explicit fail string

* src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c: Fix error checking of the device_add
  monitor command
---
 src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c |    6 ++++--
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
index 7604ae8..c60e840 100644
--- a/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
+++ b/src/qemu/qemu_monitor_text.c
@@ -2122,9 +2122,11 @@ int qemuMonitorTextAddDevice(qemuMonitorPtr mon,
         goto cleanup;
     }
 
-    if (STRNEQ(reply, "")) {
+    /* If the command failed qemu prints:
+     * Could not add ... */
+    if (strstr(reply, "Could not add ")) {
         qemuReportError(VIR_ERR_OPERATION_FAILED,
-                        _("adding %s device failed: %s"), devicestr, reply);
+                        _("adding %s device failed"), devicestr);
         goto cleanup;
     }
 
-- 
1.6.5.2

    

Daniel P. Berrange

Daniel Veillard

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