Re: [Qemu-devel] [RFC PATCH 12.5/47] qapi: Document that input visitor semantics are prone to leaks

[Markus Armbruster]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Most functions that can return a pointer or set an Error ** value
> are decent enough to guarantee a NULL return when reporting an error.
> Not so with our generated qapi visitor functions.  If the caller
> is not careful to clean up partially-allocated objects on error,
> then the caller suffers a memory leak.
>
> Properly fixing it is probably complex enough to save for a later
> day, so merely document it for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

Picked into my series.  Thanks!