Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] exit if -drive specified is invalid instead of ignoring the "wrong" -drive

[Jes Sorensen]

On 03/30/11 14:31, Michael Tokarev wrote:
> This fixes the problem when qemu continues even if -drive specification
> is somehow invalid, resulting in a mess.  Applicable for both current
> master and for stable-0.14 (and the same issue exist 0.13 and 0.12 too).
> 
> The prob can actually be seriuos: when you start guest with two drives
> and make an error in the specification of one of them, and the guest
> has something like a raid array on the two drives, guest may start failing
> that array or kick "missing" drives which may result in a mess - this is
> what actually happened to me, I did't want a resync at all, and a resync
> resulted in re-writing (and allocating) a 4TB virtual drive I used for
> testing, which in turn resulted in my filesystem filling up and whole
> thing failing badly.  Yes it was just testing VM, I experimented with
> larger raid arrays, but the end result was quite, well, unexpected.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <address@hidden>
> ---
>  vl.c |    4 +++-
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
> index 8bcf2ae..3792afb 100644
> --- a/vl.c
> +++ b/vl.c
> @@ -2098,7 +2098,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>                            HD_OPTS);
>                  break;
>              case QEMU_OPTION_drive:
> -                drive_def(optarg);
> +                if (drive_def(optarg) == NULL) {
> +                    exit(1);
> +                }

Looks good, however it would be nice if you added an error message here.

Cheers,
Jes