From: Cole Robinson Date: Tue, 5 May 2015 15:07:19 +0000 (-0400) Subject: qemu-sockets: Report explicit error if unlink fails X-Git-Url: http://git.maquefel.me/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0ef705a2653f09c15e44a644a98b6febc761431e;p=qemu.git qemu-sockets: Report explicit error if unlink fails Consider this case: $ ls -ld ~/root-owned/ drwx--x--x. 2 root root 4096 Apr 29 12:55 /home/crobinso/root-owned/ $ ls -l ~/root-owned/foo.sock -rwxrwxrwx. 1 crobinso crobinso 0 Apr 29 12:55 /home/crobinso/root-owned/foo.sock $ qemu-system-x86_64 -vnc unix:~/root-owned/foo.sock qemu-system-x86_64: -vnc unix:/home/crobinso/root-owned/foo.sock: Failed to start VNC server: Failed to bind socket to /home/crobinso/root-owned/foo.sock: Address already in use ...which is techinically true, but the real error is that we failed to unlink. So report it. This may seem pathological but it's a real possibility via libvirt. Signed-off-by: Cole Robinson Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Signed-off-by: Gerd Hoffmann --- diff --git a/util/qemu-sockets.c b/util/qemu-sockets.c index 87c9bc6c68..22c8c4c5d5 100644 --- a/util/qemu-sockets.c +++ b/util/qemu-sockets.c @@ -729,7 +729,12 @@ int unix_listen_opts(QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp) qemu_opt_set(opts, "path", un.sun_path, &error_abort); } - unlink(un.sun_path); + if ((access(un.sun_path, F_OK) == 0) && + unlink(un.sun_path) < 0) { + error_setg_errno(errp, errno, + "Failed to unlink socket %s", un.sun_path); + goto err; + } if (bind(sock, (struct sockaddr*) &un, sizeof(un)) < 0) { error_setg_errno(errp, errno, "Failed to bind socket to %s", un.sun_path); goto err;