When QEMU process aborts and socket is closed, qmp client will not detect it. When this happens, some qemu-iotests scripts will enter an endless loop waiting for qmp events.
It's better we raise an exception in qmp.py to catch this and make the test script stop. Signed-off-by: Fam Zheng <f...@redhat.com> --- scripts/qmp/qmp.py | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/qmp/qmp.py b/scripts/qmp/qmp.py index 5c97175..20b6ec7 100644 --- a/scripts/qmp/qmp.py +++ b/scripts/qmp/qmp.py @@ -171,7 +171,12 @@ class QEMUMonitorProtocol: pass self.__sock.setblocking(1) if not self.__events and wait: - self.__json_read(only_event=True) + ret = self.__json_read(only_event=True) + if ret == None: + # We are in blocking mode, if don't get anything, something + # went wrong + raise QMPConnectError("Error while reading from socket") + return self.__events def clear_events(self): -- 1.9.0