On 29/04/16 17:16, Roger Pau Monne wrote:
>
> It has also been suggested that the privcmd driver simply doesn't translate
> error codes at all, and then let the applications figure out if the error
> code comes from Xen or from the OS. IMHO, this is impossible to achieve,
> because the ioctl syscall can return an error code that's been forwarded
> by Xen or a native one, and the application has no way of knowing where is
> it coming from.
The privcmd driver could return the hypercall error in a parameter and
the ioctl return value is for driver errors. For example:
IOCTL_PRIVCMD_HYPERCALL_V2 takes a
struct xen_privcmd_hypercall_v2 {
uint64_t op
uint64_t arg[5]
int64_t ret;
};
This moves all the error code translation into userspace.
David
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