Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 5/8] file-posix: Support auto-read-only option

[Eric Blake]

On 10/12/18 6:55 AM, Kevin Wolf wrote:
> If read-only=off, but auto-read-only=on is given, open the file
> read-write if we have the permissions, but instead of erroring out for
> read-only files, just degrade to read-only.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> ---
>   block/file-posix.c | 13 +++++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/block/file-posix.c b/block/file-posix.c
> index 2da3a76355..eead3f2df3 100644
> --- a/block/file-posix.c
> +++ b/block/file-posix.c
> @@ -527,6 +527,19 @@ static int raw_open_common(BlockDriverState *bs, QDict 
> *options,
>   
>       s->fd = -1;
>       fd = qemu_open(filename, s->open_flags, 0644);
> +
> +    if (fd < 0 && (errno == EACCES || errno == EROFS)) {
> +        /* Try to degrade to read-only, but if it doesn't work, still use the
> +         * normal error message. */
> +        ret = bdrv_apply_auto_read_only(bs, NULL, NULL);

No guarantees what errno is after this call...

> +        if (ret == 0) {
> +            bdrv_flags &= ~BDRV_O_RDWR;
> +            raw_parse_flags(bdrv_flags, &s->open_flags);
> +            assert(!(s->open_flags & O_CREAT));
> +            fd = qemu_open(filename, s->open_flags);
> +        }
> +    }
> +
>       if (fd < 0) {
>           ret = -errno;
>           error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Could not open '%s'", filename);

...even though you still rely on it here.

Possible solution:

fd = qemu_open();
if (fd < 0) {
    ret = -errno;
    if ((errno == EACCES || errno == EROFS) &&
        !bdrv_apply_auto_read_only(bs, NULL, NULL)) {
        bdrv_flags ...
        fd = qemu_open();
        ret = fd < 0 ? -errno : 0;
    }
}
if (fd < 0) {
    error_setg_errno(errp, -ret, "Could not open '%s'

Another possible solution: change the contract of 
bdrv_apply_auto_read_only() to leave errno unchanged (a bit odd, if the 
return value is different than the incoming errno value).

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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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