This is an incremental step in converting vmstate loading
code to report error via Error objects instead of directly
printing it to console/monitor.
It is ensured that vmstate_subsection_load() must report an error
in errp, in case of failure.

Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Arun Menon <armenon@redhat.com>
---
 migration/vmstate.c | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/migration/vmstate.c b/migration/vmstate.c
index 5feaa3244d259874f03048326b2497e7db32e47c..24451b054c11dfca2d76e24b053d604bb7184e1c 100644
--- a/migration/vmstate.c
+++ b/migration/vmstate.c
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ static int vmstate_subsection_save(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
                                    void *opaque, JSONWriter *vmdesc,
                                    Error **errp);
 static int vmstate_subsection_load(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
-                                   void *opaque);
+                                   void *opaque, Error **errp);
 
 /* Whether this field should exist for either save or load the VM? */
 static bool
@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ int vmstate_load_state(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
         field++;
     }
     assert(field->flags == VMS_END);
-    ret = vmstate_subsection_load(f, vmsd, opaque);
+    ret = vmstate_subsection_load(f, vmsd, opaque, NULL);
     if (ret != 0) {
         qemu_file_set_error(f, ret);
         return ret;
@@ -566,7 +566,7 @@ vmstate_get_subsection(const VMStateDescription * const *sub,
 }
 
 static int vmstate_subsection_load(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
-                                   void *opaque)
+                                   void *opaque, Error **errp)
 {
     trace_vmstate_subsection_load(vmsd->name);
 
@@ -598,6 +598,8 @@ static int vmstate_subsection_load(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
         sub_vmsd = vmstate_get_subsection(vmsd->subsections, idstr);
         if (sub_vmsd == NULL) {
             trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, idstr, "(lookup)");
+            error_setg(errp, "VM subsection '%s' in '%s' does not exist",
+                       idstr, vmsd->name);
             return -ENOENT;
         }
         qemu_file_skip(f, 1); /* subsection */
@@ -608,6 +610,9 @@ static int vmstate_subsection_load(QEMUFile *f, const VMStateDescription *vmsd,
         ret = vmstate_load_state(f, sub_vmsd, opaque, version_id);
         if (ret) {
             trace_vmstate_subsection_load_bad(vmsd->name, idstr, "(child)");
+            error_setg(errp,
+                       "Loading VM subsection '%s' in '%s' failed: %d",
+                       idstr, vmsd->name, ret);
             return ret;
         }
     }

-- 
2.50.0