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The commit's purpose is laudable: The only way for chardev drivers to communicate an error was to return a NULL pointer, which resulted in an error message that said _that_ something went wrong, but not _why_. It attempts to achieve it by changing the interface to return 0/-errno and update qemu_chr_open_opts() to use strerror() to display a more helpful error message. Unfortunately, it has serious flaws: 1. Backends "socket" and "udp" return bogus error codes, because qemu_chr_open_socket() and qemu_chr_open_udp() assume that unix_listen_opts(), unix_connect_opts(), inet_listen_opts(), inet_connect_opts() and inet_dgram_opts() fail with errno set appropriately. That assumption is wrong, and the commit turns unspecific error messages into misleading error messages. For instance: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :0 -chardev socket,id=bar,host=xxx inet_connect: host and/or port not specified chardev: opening backend "socket" failed: No such file or directory ENOENT is what happens to be in my errno when the backend returns -errno. Let's put ERANGE there just for giggles: $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -vnc :0 -chardev socket,id=bar,host=xxx -drive if=none,iops=99999999999999999999 inet_connect: host and/or port not specified chardev: opening backend "socket" failed: Numerical result out of range Worse: when errno happens to be zero, return -errno erroneously signals success, and qemu_chr_new_from_opts() dies dereferencing uninitialized chr. I observe this with "-serial unix:". 2. All qemu_chr_open_opts() knows about the error is an errno error code. That's simply not enough for a decent message. For instance, when inet_dgram() can't resolve the parameter host, which errno code should it use? What if it can't resolve parameter localaddr? Clue: many backends already report errors in their open methods. Let's revert the flawed commit along with its dependencies, and fix up the silent error paths instead. This reverts commit6e1db57b2a
. Conflicts: console.c hw/baum.c qemu-char.c This reverts commitaad04cd024
. The parts of commitdb418a0a
"Add stdio char device on windows" that depend on the reverted change fixed up. Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
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/* msmouse.c */
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CharDriverState *qemu_chr_open_msmouse(QemuOpts *opts);
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