Bug 1132305

Summary: option -k and -K should point out range of reasonable values against virsh command
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: zhengqin <zsong>
Component: libvirtAssignee: Erik Skultety <eskultet>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 7.1CC: dyuan, eskultet, mzhan, rbalakri, vivianzhang, zhwang, zpeng
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Fixed In Version: libvirt-1.2.8-1.el7 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-03-05 07:43:03 UTC Type: Bug
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Description zhengqin 2014-08-21 06:25:20 UTC
Description of problem:


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
libvirt-1.2.7-1.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-rhev-2.1.0-1.el7.x86_64
kernel-3.10.0-142.el7.x86_64


How reproducible:
100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Here is man page:

    -k, --keepalive-interval INTERVAL
            Set an INTERVAL (in seconds) for sending keepalive messages
to check whether connection to the server is still alive. Setting the
interval to 0 disables client
            keepalive mechanism.

    -K, --keepalive-count COUNT
            Set a number of times keepalive message can be sent without
getting an answer from the server without marking the connection dead.
There is no effect to this
            setting in case the INTERVAL is set to 0.


2. Run the following command:

[root@rhel7-b ~]# virsh -k 9999999999
error: option --k requires a positive numeric argument
[root@rhel7-b ~]# virsh -K 9999999999
error: option --K requires a positive numeric argument

Actual results:
1. 9999999999 is a positive numeric argument, but got error.

Expected results:
1. man page should point out range of reasonable values.

2. Error info should follow man page.

Comment 1 Erik Skultety 2014-08-28 06:49:15 UTC
Fixed upstream:

commit f284ee54bad3fc7e229a61228387d0c3d5172d61
Author: Erik Skultety <eskultet>
Date:   Wed Aug 27 16:20:29 2014 +0200

    virsh: fix keepalive error msg
    
    resolves https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132305:
    
    The error message for an out-of-range argument was confusing:
    
    virsh -k 9999999999
    error: option --k requires a positive numeric argument
    
    After this patch, it is:
    
    error: Invalid value for option -k
    
    Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake>

v1.2.8-rc1-11-gf284ee5

Comment 3 zhengqin 2014-09-10 05:16:16 UTC
Verified with build libvirt-1.2.8-1.el7.x86_64:

[root@rhel7-a1 ~]# virsh -k 9999999999
error: Invalid value for option -k
[root@rhel7-a1 ~]# virsh -K 9999999999
error: Invalid value for option -K
[root@rhel7-a1 ~]# virsh --keepalive-interval=9999999999
error: Invalid value for option --keepalive-interval
[root@rhel7-a1 ~]# virsh --keepalive-count=9999999999
error: Invalid value for option --keepalive-count

Comment 5 vivian zhang 2014-11-28 07:28:07 UTC
I can produce it on build libvirt-1.2.7-1.el7.x86_64

verify it on build
libvirt-1.2.8-9.el7.x86_64

# virsh -k 9999999999
error: Invalid value for option -k
[root@server ~]# virsh -K 99999999
Welcome to virsh, the virtualization interactive terminal.

Type:  'help' for help with commands
       'quit' to quit

virsh # quit


[root@server ~]# virsh -K 9999999999
error: Invalid value for option -K
[root@server ~]# virsh -K -1
error: option -K requires a positive integer argument
[root@server ~]# virsh -k -1
error: option -k requires a positive integer argument
[root@server ~]# virsh -k a
error: Invalid value for option -k
[root@server ~]# virsh -k !
error: Invalid value for option -k

move to verified

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2015-03-05 07:43:03 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0323.html