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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 2/3] error: Remove unnecessary l
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Eric Blake |
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Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-block] [PATCH v2 2/3] error: Remove unnecessary local_err variables |
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Mon, 13 Jun 2016 10:01:16 -0600 |
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On 06/13/2016 09:52 AM, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
>>
>> There is an (ugly) difference between
>>
>> error_setg(&local_err, ...);
>> error_propagate(errp, &local_err);
>>
>> and
>>
>> error_setg(errp, ...);
>>
>> The latter aborts when @errp already contains an error, the former does
>> nothing.
>
> Why the difference? Couldn't we change that so that both are equivalent?
Maybe, but I think it weakens our position. An abort() on an attempt to
incorrectly set an error twice helps catch errors where we are throwing
away a more useful first error message. The documentation for
error_propagate() already mentioned that it was an exception to the rule.
>
>>
>> Your transformation has the error_setg() or similar hidden in F2(). It
>> can add aborts.
>>
>> I think it can be salvaged: we know that @errp must not contain an error
>> on function entry. If @errp doesn't occur elsewhere in this function,
>> it cannot pick up an error on the way to the transformed spot. Can you
>> add that to your when constraints?
>
> Do we really know that *errp is NULL on entry? Aren't we allowed to call
> functions with a non-NULL *errp?
Except for error_propagate(), no.
>
> See, e.g.:
>
> void qmp_guest_suspend_disk(Error **errp)
> {
> Error *local_err = NULL;
> GuestSuspendMode *mode = g_new(GuestSuspendMode, 1);
>
> *mode = GUEST_SUSPEND_MODE_DISK;
> check_suspend_mode(*mode, &local_err);
> acquire_privilege(SE_SHUTDOWN_NAME, &local_err);
> execute_async(do_suspend, mode, &local_err);
That usage is a bug. A Coccinelle script to root out such buggy
instances would be nice.
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Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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[Qemu-devel] [RFC v2 3/3] Remove unnecessary variables for function return value, Eduardo Habkost, 2016/06/10