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[1/3] util: validate whether O_DIRECT is supported after failure

Message ID 20200701160509.1523847-2-berrange@redhat.com
State New
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Series block: improve error reporting for unsupported O_DIRECT | expand

Commit Message

Daniel P. Berrangé July 1, 2020, 4:05 p.m. UTC 
Currently we suggest that a filesystem may not support O_DIRECT after
seeing an EINVAL. Other things can cause EINVAL though, so it is better
to do an explicit check, and then report a definitive error message.

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 util/osdep.c | 13 +++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/util/osdep.c b/util/osdep.c
index 4829c07ff6..4bdbe81cec 100644
--- a/util/osdep.c
+++ b/util/osdep.c
@@ -342,8 +342,17 @@  int qemu_open(const char *name, int flags, ...)
 
 #ifdef O_DIRECT
     if (ret == -1 && errno == EINVAL && (flags & O_DIRECT)) {
-        error_report("file system may not support O_DIRECT");
-        errno = EINVAL; /* in case it was clobbered */
+        int newflags = flags & ~O_DIRECT;
+# ifdef O_CLOEXEC
+        ret = open(name, newflags | O_CLOEXEC, mode);
+# else
+        ret = open(name, newflags, mode);
+# endif
+        if (ret != -1) {
+            close(ret);
+            error_report("file system does not support O_DIRECT");
+            errno = EINVAL;
+        }
     }
 #endif /* O_DIRECT */