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| author | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2022-10-12 17:37:59 +0200 |
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| committer | Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> | 2022-10-27 07:56:56 +0200 |
| commit | ff924448849f4fca48df15ecad67dc93854392e5 (patch) | |
| tree | 73797ff424969e0b3d5a42d57dbdd40d64aaba9f /backends/rng-egd.c | |
| parent | 3f7febc93785bf0e622072b01f846d2acbcd9c0b (diff) | |
backends: Improve error messages when property can no longer be set
When you try to set virtio-rng property "filename" after the backend
has been completed with user_creatable_complete(), the error message
blames "insufficient permission":
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -S -display none -nodefaults -monitor stdio -object rng-random,id=rng0 -device virtio-rng,id=vrng0,rng=rng0
QEMU 7.1.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
(qemu) qom-set /objects/rng0 filename /dev/random
Error: Insufficient permission to perform this operation
This implies it could work with "sufficient permission". It can't.
Change the error message to:
Error: Property 'filename' can no longer be set
Same for cryptodev-vhost-user property "chardev", rng-egd property
"chardev", and vhost-user-backend property "chardev".
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20221012153801.2604340-3-armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
[Commit message tidied up]
Diffstat (limited to 'backends/rng-egd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | backends/rng-egd.c | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/backends/rng-egd.c b/backends/rng-egd.c index 4de142b9dc..684c3cf3d6 100644 --- a/backends/rng-egd.c +++ b/backends/rng-egd.c @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ static void rng_egd_set_chardev(Object *obj, const char *value, Error **errp) RngEgd *s = RNG_EGD(b); if (b->opened) { - error_setg(errp, QERR_PERMISSION_DENIED); + error_setg(errp, "Property 'chardev' can no longer be set"); } else { g_free(s->chr_name); s->chr_name = g_strdup(value); |