On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 01:00:29PM +0800, Daniel Veillard wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 04:19:37PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > On 06/22/2011 09:33 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > > This provides a new struct that contains a buffer for the RPC
> > > message header+payload, as well as a decoded copy of the message
> > > header. There is an API for applying a XDR encoding & decoding
> > > of the message headers and payloads. There are also APIs for
> > > maintaining a simple FIFO queue of message instances.
> > >
> > > Expected usage scenarios are:
> > >
> > > To send a message
> > >
> > > msg = virNetMessageNew()
> > >
> > > ...fill in msg->header fields..
> > > virNetMessageEncodeHeader(msg)
> > > ...loook at msg->header fields to determine payload filter
> > > virNetMessageEncodePayload(msg, xdrfilter, data)
> > > ...send msg->bufferLength worth of data from buffer
> > >
> > > To receive a message
> > >
> > > msg = virNetMessageNew()
> > > ...read VIR_NET_MESSAGE_LEN_MAX of data into buffer
> > > virNetMessageDecodeLength(msg)
> > > ...read msg->bufferLength-msg->bufferOffset of data into buffer
> > > virNetMessageDecodeHeader(msg)
> > > ...look at msg->header fields to determine payload filter
> > > virNetMessageDecodePayload(msg, xdrfilter, data)
> > > ...run payload processor
> >
> [...]
> > > +void virNetMessageSaveError(virNetMessageErrorPtr rerr)
> > > +{
> > > + /* This func may be called several times & the first
> > > + * error is the one we want because we don't want
> > > + * cleanup code overwriting the first one.
> > > + */
> > > + if (rerr->code != VIR_ERR_OK)
> > > + return;
> > > +
> > > + virErrorPtr verr = virGetLastError();
> > > + if (verr) {
> > > + rerr->code = verr->code;
> > > + rerr->domain = verr->domain;
> > > + rerr->message = verr->message ? malloc(sizeof(char*)) : NULL;
> >
> > Should we really be using raw malloc here, or is it any better to use
> > VIR_ALLOC? (Several times in this function).
>
> I would rather use VIR_ALLOC everywhere if possible too,
This bit of code is just copied from existing code in daemon/dispatch.c
and I didn't notice it wasn't using VIR_ALLOC. I'll update it though we
do intentionally ignore OOM and do our best to carry on returning an
RPC error message to the client.
Daniel
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