Sometimes qemu-ga fails to send a response to client due to memory allocation issues due to a large response message, this can be experienced while trying to read large number of bytes using QMP command guest-file-read.
Added a check to send an error response to qemu-ga client in such cases. Signed-off-by: Basil Salman <ba...@daynix.com> --- qga/main.c | 13 +++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+) diff --git a/qga/main.c b/qga/main.c index 87a0711c14..964275c40c 100644 --- a/qga/main.c +++ b/qga/main.c @@ -561,6 +561,8 @@ static void process_command(GAState *s, QDict *req) { QDict *rsp; int ret; + QDict *ersp; + Error *err = NULL; g_assert(req); g_debug("processing command"); @@ -569,9 +571,20 @@ static void process_command(GAState *s, QDict *req) ret = send_response(s, rsp); if (ret < 0) { g_warning("error sending response: %s", strerror(-ret)); + goto err; } qobject_unref(rsp); } + return; +err: + error_setg(&err, "Insufficient system resources exist to " + "complete the requested service"); + ersp = qmp_error_response(err); + ret = send_response(s, ersp); + if (ret < 0) { + g_warning("error sending error response: %s", strerror(-ret)); + } + qobject_unref(ersp); } /* handle requests/control events coming in over the channel */ -- 2.17.2