[OE-core] [PATCH] wic/filemap: If FIGETBSZ iotctl fail, failback to os.stat

Kalle Lampila kalle.lampila at lempea.com
Tue Dec 31 15:10:49 UTC 2019


Some file systems don't support fetching the block size (notably the
file system Docker uses for containers), so if iotctl() fail, try to use
failback via os.stat() to get block size.

Signed-off-by: Kalle lampila <kalle.lampila at lempea.com>
---
 scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py b/scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py
index a3919fbcad..c53147c2f1 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/wic/filemap.py
@@ -34,9 +34,11 @@ def get_block_size(file_obj):
     # the FIGETBSZ ioctl (number 2).
     try:
         binary_data = fcntl.ioctl(file_obj, 2, struct.pack('I', 0))
+        bsize = struct.unpack('I', binary_data)[0]
     except OSError:
-        raise IOError("Unable to determine block size")
-    bsize = struct.unpack('I', binary_data)[0]
+        bsize = None
+
+    # If ioctl causes OSError or give bsize to zero failback to os.fstat
     if not bsize:
         import os
         stat = os.fstat(file_obj.fileno())
--
2.17.1


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