If the user does not have permissions to send ioctls to the device (due to
SELinux or cgroups, for example), the output can look like
qemu-kvm: -device scsi-block,drive=disk: cannot get SG_IO version number:
Operation not permitted. Is this a SCSI device?
but this is confusing because the ioctl was blocked _before_ the device
even received the SG_GET_VERSION_NUM ioctl. Therefore, for EPERM errors
the suggestion should be eliminated. To make that simpler, change the
code to use error_append_hint.
Reported-by: Ala Hino <ahino@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
---
hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c | 7 ++++---
hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c | 7 ++++---
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c b/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
index 94043ed024..3e29063a3f 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c
@@ -2637,9 +2637,10 @@ static void scsi_block_realize(SCSIDevice *dev, Error **errp)
/* check we are using a driver managing SG_IO (version 3 and after) */
rc = blk_ioctl(s->qdev.conf.blk, SG_GET_VERSION_NUM, &sg_version);
if (rc < 0) {
- error_setg(errp, "cannot get SG_IO version number: %s. "
- "Is this a SCSI device?",
- strerror(-rc));
+ error_setg_errno(errp, -rc, "cannot get SG_IO version number");
+ if (rc != -EPERM) {
+ error_append_hint(errp, "Is this a SCSI device?\n");
+ }
return;
}
if (sg_version < 30000) {
diff --git a/hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c b/hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c
index 7414fe2d67..4753f8738f 100644
--- a/hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c
+++ b/hw/scsi/scsi-generic.c
@@ -500,9 +500,10 @@ static void scsi_generic_realize(SCSIDevice *s, Error **errp)
/* check we are using a driver managing SG_IO (version 3 and after */
rc = blk_ioctl(s->conf.blk, SG_GET_VERSION_NUM, &sg_version);
if (rc < 0) {
- error_setg(errp, "cannot get SG_IO version number: %s. "
- "Is this a SCSI device?",
- strerror(-rc));
+ error_setg_errno(errp, -rc, "cannot get SG_IO version number");
+ if (rc != -EPERM) {
+ error_append_hint(errp, "Is this a SCSI device?\n");
+ }
return;
}
if (sg_version < 30000) {
--
2.16.2