commit 28035bed1c565eace7db18971a7e960a8d1f7c44
author Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Tue Oct 31 11:45:30 2023 +0100
committer Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Thu Nov 02 18:40:50 2023 +0400
tree 174dd23bba94813b388752f9221ad5ed94cf34ca
parent f8c49724cbe13fa30b5893eff33f9ccee7e4466a

dump: Improve some dump-guest-memory error messages

Zero @length is rejected with "Invalid parameter 'length'".  Improve
to "parameter 'length' expects a non-zero length".

qemu_open_old() is a wrapper around qemu_open_internal() that throws
away error information.  Switch to the wrapper that doesn't:
qemu_create().  Example improvement:

    (qemu) dump-guest-memory /dev/fdset/x 0 1
    Error: Could not open '/dev/fdset/x': Invalid argument

becomes

    Error: Could not parse fdset /dev/fdset/x

@protocol values not starting with "fd:" or "file:" are rejected with
"Invalid parameter 'protocol'".  Improve to "parameter 'protocol' must
start with 'file:' or 'fd:'".

While there, make the conditional checking @protocol a little more
obvious.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20231031104531.3169721-5-armbru@redhat.com>

dump/dump.c

diff --git a/dump/dump.c b/dump/dump.c
index 2d0b5bd..ec2cfcf 100644
--- a/dump/dump.c
+++ b/dump/dump.c
@@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@
 
     s->fd = fd;
     if (has_filter && !length) {
-        error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER, "length");
+        error_setg(errp, "parameter 'length' expects a non-zero size");
         goto cleanup;
     }
     s->filter_area_begin = begin;
@@ -2088,7 +2088,7 @@
 {
     ERRP_GUARD();
     const char *p;
-    int fd = -1;
+    int fd;
     DumpState *s;
     bool detach_p = false;
     bool kdump_raw = false;
@@ -2175,18 +2175,14 @@
         if (fd == -1) {
             return;
         }
-    }
-
-    if  (strstart(protocol, "file:", &p)) {
-        fd = qemu_open_old(p, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, S_IRUSR);
+    } else if  (strstart(protocol, "file:", &p)) {
+        fd = qemu_create(p, O_WRONLY | O_TRUNC | O_BINARY, S_IRUSR, errp);
         if (fd < 0) {
-            error_setg_file_open(errp, errno, p);
             return;
         }
-    }
-
-    if (fd == -1) {
-        error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER, "protocol");
+    } else {
+        error_setg(errp,
+                   "parameter 'protocol' must start with 'file:' or 'fd:'");
         return;
     }
     if (kdump_raw && lseek(fd, 0, SEEK_CUR) == (off_t) -1) {