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[13/16] xen: Expect xenstore write to fail when restricted

Message ID 1524156319-11465-14-git-send-email-ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com
State New
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Series xen: xen-domid-restrict improvements | expand

Commit Message

Ian Jackson April 19, 2018, 4:45 p.m. UTC 
From: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>

Saving the current state to xenstore may fail when running restricted
(in particular, after a migration). Therefore, don't report the error or
exit when running restricted.  Toolstacks that want to allow running
QEMU restricted should instead make use of QMP events to listen for
state changes.

CC: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Signed-off-by: Ross Lagerwall <ross.lagerwall@citrix.com>
Reviewed-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>
Acked-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@citrix.com>
---
v6: New patch in this version of the series
---
 hw/xen/xen-common.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/hw/xen/xen-common.c b/hw/xen/xen-common.c
index 454777c..6ec14c7 100644
--- a/hw/xen/xen-common.c
+++ b/hw/xen/xen-common.c
@@ -101,7 +101,12 @@  static void xenstore_record_dm_state(struct xs_handle *xs, const char *state)
     }
 
     snprintf(path, sizeof (path), "device-model/%u/state", xen_domid);
-    if (!xs_write(xs, XBT_NULL, path, state, strlen(state))) {
+    /*
+     * This call may fail when running restricted so don't make it fatal in
+     * that case. Toolstacks should instead use QMP to listen for state changes.
+     */
+    if (!xs_write(xs, XBT_NULL, path, state, strlen(state)) &&
+            !xen_domid_restrict) {
         error_report("error recording dm state");
         exit(1);
     }