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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] pseries: Improve error handling in find_u
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David Gibson |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 06/11] pseries: Improve error handling in find_unknown_sysbus_device() |
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Mon, 14 Dec 2015 12:21:45 +1100 |
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Mutt/1.5.24 (2015-08-30) |
On Fri, Dec 11, 2015 at 08:15:39AM -0700, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 12/10/2015 05:11 PM, David Gibson wrote:
> > Use error_setg() to return an error instead of using an explicit exit().
> >
> > Signed-off-by: David Gibson <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > hw/ppc/spapr.c | 9 +++++----
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >
>
> > +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c
> > @@ -1107,6 +1107,7 @@ static void spapr_reset_htab(sPAPRMachineState
> > *spapr, Error **errp)
> >
> > static int find_unknown_sysbus_device(SysBusDevice *sbdev, void *opaque)
> > {
>
> > if (!matched) {
> > - error_report("Device %s is not supported by this machine yet.",
> > - qdev_fw_name(DEVICE(sbdev)));
> > - exit(1);
> > + error_setg(errp,
> > + "Device %s is not supported by this machine yet",
> > + qdev_fw_name(DEVICE(sbdev)));
> > }
> >
> > return 0;
>
> It looks like find_unknown_sysbus_device is designed to be called in a
> loop, and that returning 0 lets the loop continue.
>
> > @@ -1151,7 +1152,7 @@ static void ppc_spapr_reset(void)
> > uint32_t rtas_limit;
> >
> > /* Check for unknown sysbus devices */
> > - foreach_dynamic_sysbus_device(find_unknown_sysbus_device, NULL);
> > + foreach_dynamic_sysbus_device(find_unknown_sysbus_device,
> > &error_abort);
>
> If a caller passes something other than &error_abort as the opaque, AND
> the error condition occurs more than once in the loop iteration, then
> you really need to change find_unknown_sysbus_device() to return
> non-zero after raising error on the first failure, so that the loop
> doesn't continue on to a second pass and attempt an error_setg() onto an
> already-set error.
Ah, good catch. I'll correct in the next spin.
> Of course, since _this_ patch uses &error_abort as the only client, the
> loop will never continue after the first failure, but it's more robust
> to be clean without having to audit the callers.
>
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