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-rw-r--r--daemon/.gitignore1
-rw-r--r--daemon/m4/gnulib-cache.m43
-rw-r--r--daemon/tar.c49
3 files changed, 46 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/daemon/.gitignore b/daemon/.gitignore
index 130acb1b..440470e4 100644
--- a/daemon/.gitignore
+++ b/daemon/.gitignore
@@ -100,6 +100,7 @@ m4/printf.m4
m4/priv-set.m4
m4/rawmemchr.m4
m4/readlink.m4
+m4/read-file.m4
m4/realloc.m4
m4/rmdir.m4
m4/safe-read.m4
diff --git a/daemon/m4/gnulib-cache.m4 b/daemon/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
index 91c6ac22..f026cb33 100644
--- a/daemon/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
+++ b/daemon/m4/gnulib-cache.m4
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
# Specification in the form of a command-line invocation:
-# gnulib-tool --import --dir=. --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --with-tests --no-libtool --macro-prefix=gl byteswap c-ctype connect fsusage futimens getaddrinfo getline glob hash ignore-value manywarnings mkdtemp netdb openat perror pread readlink select sleep socket strchrnul strndup symlinkat sys_select sys_wait vasprintf warnings
+# gnulib-tool --import --dir=. --lib=libgnu --source-base=lib --m4-base=m4 --doc-base=doc --tests-base=tests --aux-dir=build-aux --with-tests --no-libtool --macro-prefix=gl byteswap c-ctype connect error fsusage futimens getaddrinfo getline glob hash ignore-value manywarnings mkdtemp netdb openat perror pread read-file readlink select sleep socket strchrnul strndup symlinkat sys_select sys_wait vasprintf warnings
# Specification in the form of a few gnulib-tool.m4 macro invocations:
gl_LOCAL_DIR([])
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ gl_MODULES([
openat
perror
pread
+ read-file
readlink
select
sleep
diff --git a/daemon/tar.c b/daemon/tar.c
index 1e9698c2..941f80bd 100644
--- a/daemon/tar.c
+++ b/daemon/tar.c
@@ -23,10 +23,40 @@
#include <string.h>
#include <fcntl.h>
+#include "read-file.h"
+
#include "../src/guestfs_protocol.h"
#include "daemon.h"
#include "actions.h"
+/* Redirect errors from the tar command to the error file, then
+ * provide functions for reading it in. We overwrite the file each
+ * time, and since it's small and stored on the appliance we don't
+ * bother to delete it.
+ */
+static const char *error_file = "/tmp/error";
+
+static char *
+read_error_file (void)
+{
+ size_t len;
+ char *str = read_file (error_file, &len);
+ if (str == NULL) {
+ str = strdup ("(no error)");
+ if (str == NULL) {
+ perror ("strdup");
+ exit (EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
+ len = strlen (str);
+ }
+
+ /* Remove trailing \n character if any. */
+ if (len > 0 && str[len-1] == '\n')
+ str[--len] = '\0';
+
+ return str; /* caller frees */
+}
+
static int
write_cb (void *fd_ptr, const void *buf, size_t len)
{
@@ -43,8 +73,8 @@ do_tXz_in (const char *dir, const char *filter)
char *cmd;
/* "tar -C /sysroot%s -xf -" but we have to quote the dir. */
- if (asprintf_nowarn (&cmd, "tar -C %R -%sxf -",
- dir, filter) == -1) {
+ if (asprintf_nowarn (&cmd, "tar -C %R -%sxf - 2> %s",
+ dir, filter, error_file) == -1) {
err = errno;
r = cancel_receive ();
errno = err;
@@ -73,8 +103,11 @@ do_tXz_in (const char *dir, const char *filter)
r = receive_file (write_cb, &fd);
if (r == -1) { /* write error */
- if (cancel_receive () != -2)
- reply_with_error ("write error on directory: %s", dir);
+ if (cancel_receive () != -2) {
+ char *errstr = read_error_file ();
+ reply_with_error ("write error on directory: %s: %s", dir, errstr);
+ free (errstr);
+ }
pclose (fp);
return -1;
}
@@ -87,8 +120,12 @@ do_tXz_in (const char *dir, const char *filter)
if (pclose (fp) != 0) {
if (r == -1) /* if r == 0, file transfer ended already */
r = cancel_receive ();
- if (r != -2)
- reply_with_error ("tar subcommand failed on directory: %s", dir);
+ if (r != -2) {
+ char *errstr = read_error_file ();
+ reply_with_error ("tar subcommand failed on directory: %s: %s",
+ dir, errstr);
+ free (errstr);
+ }
return -1;
}