Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] xics: fix several error leaks

[David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>]

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On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 12:04:40AM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> If object_property_get_link() fails then it allocates an error, which
> must be freed before returning. The error_get_pretty() function is
> merely an accessor to the error message and doesn't free anything.
> 
> The error.h header indicates how to do it right:
> 
>  * Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified:
>  *     error_propagate(errp, err);
>  *     error_prepend(errp, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
> 
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>

Applied to ppc-for-2.11.

> ---
>  hw/intc/xics.c |   12 ++++++------
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/intc/xics.c b/hw/intc/xics.c
> index a84ba51ad8ff..80c33be02e5e 100644
> --- a/hw/intc/xics.c
> +++ b/hw/intc/xics.c
> @@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ static void icp_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>  
>      obj = object_property_get_link(OBJECT(dev), ICP_PROP_XICS, &err);
>      if (!obj) {
> -        error_setg(errp, "%s: required link '" ICP_PROP_XICS "' not found: %s",
> -                   __func__, error_get_pretty(err));
> +        error_propagate(errp, err);
> +        error_prepend(errp, "required link '" ICP_PROP_XICS "' not found: ");
>          return;
>      }
>  
> @@ -315,8 +315,8 @@ static void icp_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>  
>      obj = object_property_get_link(OBJECT(dev), ICP_PROP_CPU, &err);
>      if (!obj) {
> -        error_setg(errp, "%s: required link '" ICP_PROP_CPU "' not found: %s",
> -                   __func__, error_get_pretty(err));
> +        error_propagate(errp, err);
> +        error_prepend(errp, "required link '" ICP_PROP_CPU "' not found: ");
>          return;
>      }
>  
> @@ -641,8 +641,8 @@ static void ics_base_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>  
>      obj = object_property_get_link(OBJECT(dev), ICS_PROP_XICS, &err);
>      if (!obj) {
> -        error_setg(errp, "%s: required link '" ICS_PROP_XICS "' not found: %s",
> -                   __func__, error_get_pretty(err));
> +        error_propagate(errp, err);
> +        error_prepend(errp, "required link '" ICS_PROP_XICS "' not found: ");
>          return;
>      }
>      ics->xics = XICS_FABRIC(obj);
> 

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