mirrors/qemu
1
0
Fork 0
Code Issues Pull Requests Packages Projects Releases Wiki Activity

net: tap-linux: Fix unhelpful error message

Browse Source 
I'm getting:

    could not configure /dev/net/tun (tap%d): Operation not permitted

When the ioctl() fails, ifr.ifr_name will most likely not be overwritten.
So we better only use it when ifname contains a string.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
This commit is contained in:
Luiz Capitulino 2011-10-14 15:05:10 -03:00 committed by Stefan Hajnoczi
parent ff74c5a9a9
commit 93a7320e32
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
Show Stats Download Patch File Download Diff File Expand all files Collapse all files

6
net/tap-linux.c
View File

@ -73,7 +73,11 @@ int tap_open(char *ifname, int ifname_size, int *vnet_hdr, int vnet_hdr_required
pstrcpy(ifr.ifr_name, IFNAMSIZ, "tap%d");
ret = ioctl(fd, TUNSETIFF, (void *) &ifr);
if (ret != 0) {
error_report("could not configure %s (%s): %m", PATH_NET_TUN, ifr.ifr_name);
if (ifname[0] != '\0') {
error_report("could not configure %s (%s): %m", PATH_NET_TUN, ifr.ifr_name);
} else {
error_report("could not configure %s: %m", PATH_NET_TUN);
}
close(fd);
return -1;
}