Commit 91f4ebbac81bc3829da6d5a71d7520a6fc9e358e (v10.0.0-185-g91f4ebbac8) changed the return value of virSocketSendFD() from 0 to 1 on success. Unfortunately in 'virFileOpenForked' the return value was used to report the error back to the main process from the fork'd child. As process return codes are positive only, the code negates the value of 'ret' and reports it. This resulted in the parent thinking the process exited with failure: # virsh save avocado-vt-vm1 /mnt/save error: Failed to save domain 'avocado-vt-vm1' to /mnt/save error: Error from child process creating '/mnt/save': Unknown error 255 This error reproduces on NFS mounts with 'root_squash' enabled. I've also observed it in one specific migration case when root_squash NFS is used with following error: Failed to open file '/var/lib/libvirt/images/alpine.qcow2': Unknown error 255' To fix the issue the code is refactored so that it doesn't actually touch the 'ret' variable needlessly and assigns to it only on failure cases, which prevents the '1' to be propagated to the parent process as '255' after negating and storing in the process return code. Fixes: 91f4ebbac81bc3829da6d5a71d7520a6fc9e358e Resolves: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/RHEL-36721 Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@xxxxxxxxxx> --- src/util/virfile.c | 7 ++----- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virfile.c b/src/util/virfile.c index c4d22921ce..d820172405 100644 --- a/src/util/virfile.c +++ b/src/util/virfile.c @@ -2441,8 +2441,7 @@ virFileOpenForked(const char *path, created = true; /* File is successfully open. Set permissions if requested. */ - ret = virFileOpenForceOwnerMode(path, fd, mode, uid, gid, flags); - if (ret < 0) { + if (virFileOpenForceOwnerMode(path, fd, mode, uid, gid, flags) < 0) { ret = -errno; virReportSystemError(errno, _("child process failed to force owner mode file '%1$s'"), @@ -2450,9 +2449,7 @@ virFileOpenForked(const char *path, goto childerror; } - ret = virSocketSendFD(pair[1], fd); - - if (ret < 0) { + if (virSocketSendFD(pair[1], fd) < 0) { ret = -errno; virReportSystemError(errno, "%s", _("child process failed to send fd to parent")); -- 2.45.1
