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-rw-r--r--src/launch.c17
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/launch.c b/src/launch.c
index ce26e253..1988f70c 100644
--- a/src/launch.c
+++ b/src/launch.c
@@ -233,17 +233,21 @@ guestfs__config (guestfs_h *g,
* O_DIRECT. This fails on some filesystem types (notably tmpfs).
* So we check if we can open the file with or without O_DIRECT,
* and use cache=off (or not) accordingly.
+ *
+ * NB: This function is only called on the !readonly path. We must
+ * try to open with O_RDWR to test that the file is readable and
+ * writable here.
*/
static int
test_cache_off (guestfs_h *g, const char *filename)
{
- int fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY|O_DIRECT);
+ int fd = open (filename, O_RDWR|O_DIRECT);
if (fd >= 0) {
close (fd);
return 1;
}
- fd = open (filename, O_RDONLY);
+ fd = open (filename, O_RDWR);
if (fd >= 0) {
close (fd);
return 0;
@@ -325,7 +329,7 @@ guestfs__add_drive_opts (guestfs_h *g, const char *filename,
}
if (readonly) {
- if (access (filename, F_OK) == -1) {
+ if (access (filename, R_OK) == -1) {
perrorf (g, "%s", filename);
free (format);
free (iface);
@@ -853,6 +857,13 @@ launch_appliance (guestfs_h *g)
if (r == -1)
goto cleanup1;
+ /* NB: We reach here just because qemu has opened the socket. It
+ * does not mean the daemon is up until we read the
+ * GUESTFS_LAUNCH_FLAG below. Failures in qemu startup can still
+ * happen even if we reach here, even early failures like not being
+ * able to open a drive.
+ */
+
close (g->sock); /* Close the listening socket. */
g->sock = r; /* This is the accepted data socket. */