[Qemu-devel] [PATCH for-2.4 2/2] qom: Fix invalid error check in property_get_str()

[Markus Armbruster]

When a function returns a null pointer on error and only on error, you
can do

    if (!foo(foos, errp)) {
        ... handle error ...
    }

instead of the more cumbersome

    Error *err = NULL;

    if (!foo(foos, &err)) {
        error_propagate(errp, err);
        ... handle error ...
    }

A StringProperty's getter, however, may return null on success!  We
then fail to call visit_type_str().

Screwed up in 6a146eb, v1.1.

Fails tests/qom-test in my current, heavily hacked QAPI branch.  No
reproducer for master known (but I didn't look hard).

Cc: Andreas Färber <address@hidden>
Cc: Anthony Liguori <address@hidden>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
---
 qom/object.c | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index 6173da8..4c4df55 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -1591,14 +1591,18 @@ typedef struct StringProperty
 static void property_get_str(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
                              const char *name, Error **errp)
 {
+    Error *err = NULL;
     StringProperty *prop = opaque;
     char *value;
 
-    value = prop->get(obj, errp);
-    if (value) {
-        visit_type_str(v, &value, name, errp);
-        g_free(value);
+    value = prop->get(obj, &err);
+    if (err) {
+        error_propagate(errp, err);
+        return;
     }
+
+    visit_type_str(v, &value, name, errp);
+    g_free(value);
 }
 
 static void property_set_str(Object *obj, Visitor *v, void *opaque,
-- 
1.9.3