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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH v2] libxl: Reset toolstack_save file position in libxl



On 19/05/2014 19:36, Jason Andryuk wrote:
> toolstack_save data is written to a temporary file in libxl and read
> back in libxl-save-helper.  The file position must be reset prior to
> reading the file, which is done in libxl-save-helper with lseek.
>
> lseek is unsupported for pipes and sockets, so a wrapper passing such an
> fd to libxl-save-helper fails the lseek.  Moving the lseek to libxl
> avoids the error, allowing the save to continue.
>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Andryuk <andryuk@xxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@xxxxxxxxxx>

Ian: As noted previously, this should be a backport candidate.

> ---
> v2:
> Use single line comment
> ---
>  tools/libxl/libxl_save_callout.c | 4 ++++
>  tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c  | 5 ++---
>  2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_save_callout.c 
> b/tools/libxl/libxl_save_callout.c
> index 6e45b2f..1bfedfb 100644
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_save_callout.c
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_save_callout.c
> @@ -105,6 +105,10 @@ void libxl__xc_domain_save(libxl__egc *egc, 
> libxl__domain_suspend_state *dss,
>                                  toolstack_data_buf, toolstack_data_len,
>                                  "toolstack data tmpfile", 0);
>          if (r) { rc = ERROR_FAIL; goto out; }
> +
> +        /* file position must be reset before passing to libxl-save-helper. 
> */
> +        r = lseek(toolstack_data_fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
> +        if (r) { rc = ERROR_FAIL; goto out; }
>      }
>  
>      const unsigned long argnums[] = {
> diff --git a/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c b/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c
> index 880565e..20ca13e 100644
> --- a/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c
> +++ b/tools/libxl/libxl_save_helper.c
> @@ -169,10 +169,9 @@ static uint32_t toolstack_save_len;
>  static int toolstack_save_cb(uint32_t domid, uint8_t **buf,
>                               uint32_t *len, void *data)
>  {
> -    assert(toolstack_save_fd > 0);
> +    int r;
>  
> -    int r = lseek(toolstack_save_fd, 0, SEEK_SET);
> -    if (r) fail(errno,"rewind toolstack data tmpfile");
> +    assert(toolstack_save_fd > 0);
>  
>      *buf = xmalloc(toolstack_save_len);
>      r = read_exactly(toolstack_save_fd, *buf, toolstack_save_len);


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