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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi: turn "is this a SCSI device?" into a cond
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Laurent Vivier |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scsi: turn "is this a SCSI device?" into a conditional hint |
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Wed, 21 Mar 2018 13:55:30 +0100 |
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On 21/03/2018 13:54, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> If the user does not have permissions to send ioctls to the device (due to
> SELinux or cgroups, for example), the output can look like
>
> qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=disk: cannot get SG_IO version number:
> Operation not permitted. Is this a SCSI device?
>
> but this is confusing because the ioctl was blocked _before_ the device
> even received the SG_GET_VERSION_NUM ioctl. Therefore, for EPERM errors
> the suggestion should be eliminated. To make that simpler, change the
> code to use error_append_hint.
>
> Reported-by: Ala Hino <address@hidden>
> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> ---
> hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c | 7 ++++---
> hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c | 7 ++++---
> 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <address@hidden>