[libvirt] [PATCH] conf: don't fail to parse <boot> element when parsing a single device

[Laine Stump]

This resolves:

  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=895294

The symptom was that attempts to modify a network device using
virDomainUpdateDeviceFlags() would fail if the original device had a
<boot> element (e.g. "<boot order='1'/>"), even if the updated device
had the same <boot> element. Instead, the following error would be logged:

  cannot modify network device boot index setting

It's true that it's not possible to change boot order (internally
known as bootIndex) of a live device; qemuDomainChangeNet checks for
that, but the problem was that the information it was checking was
incorrect.

Explanation:

When a complete domain is parsed, a global (to the domain) "bootMap"
is passed down to the parse for each device; the bootMap is used to
make sure that devices don't have conflicting settings for their boot
orders.

When a single device is parsed by itself (as in the case of
virDomainUpdateDeviceFlags), there is no global bootMap that would be
appropriate to send, so NULL is sent instead. However, although the
lowest level function that parses just the boot order *does* simply
skip the sanity check in that case, the next higher level
"virDomainDeviceInfoParseXML" function refuses to call down to the
lower "virDomainDeviceBootParseXML" if bootMap is NULL. So, the boot
order is never set in the "new" device object, and when it is compared
to the original (which does have a boot order), they don't match.

The fix is to patch virDomainDeviceInfoParseXML to not care about
bootMap, and just always call virDomainDeviceInfoBootParseXML whenever
there is a <boot> element. When we are only parsing a single device,
we don't care whether or not any specified boot order is consistent
with the rest of the domain; we will always do this check later (in
the current case, we do it by verifying that the net bootIndex exactly
matches the old bootIndex).
---
 src/conf/domain_conf.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/conf/domain_conf.c b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
index 06b9c25..e4babaf 100644
--- a/src/conf/domain_conf.c
+++ b/src/conf/domain_conf.c
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 /*
  * domain_conf.c: domain XML processing
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2006-2012 Red Hat, Inc.
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2013 Red Hat, Inc.
  * Copyright (C) 2006-2008 Daniel P. Berrange
  *
  * This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
@@ -2624,7 +2624,7 @@ virDomainDeviceInfoParseXML(xmlNodePtr node,
             } else if (master == NULL &&
                        xmlStrEqual(cur->name, BAD_CAST "master")) {
                 master = cur;
-            } else if (boot == NULL && bootMap &&
+            } else if (boot == NULL &&
                        (flags & VIR_DOMAIN_XML_INTERNAL_ALLOW_BOOT) &&
                        xmlStrEqual(cur->name, BAD_CAST "boot")) {
                 boot = cur;
-- 
1.7.11.7