When loading a simpletrace binary file we just report "Not a valid trace file!" which is not very helpful. Report exactly which field we found to be invalid.
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> --- scripts/simpletrace.py | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/simpletrace.py b/scripts/simpletrace.py index 4ca903d..4c99004 100755 --- a/scripts/simpletrace.py +++ b/scripts/simpletrace.py @@ -73,10 +73,14 @@ def read_record(edict, idtoname, fobj): def read_trace_header(fobj): """Read and verify trace file header""" header = read_header(fobj, log_header_fmt) - if header is None or \ - header[0] != header_event_id or \ - header[1] != header_magic: + if header is None: raise ValueError('Not a valid trace file!') + if header[0] != header_event_id: + raise ValueError('Not a valid trace file, header id %d != %d' % + (header[0], header_event_id)) + if header[1] != header_magic: + raise ValueError('Not a valid trace file, header magic %d != %d' % + (header[1], header_magic)) log_version = header[2] if log_version not in [0, 2, 3, 4]: -- 2.9.3