Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 08/10] tests/bios-tables-test: check the value returned by fopen()

[zhanghailiang <zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>]

On 2014/8/8 17:51, Alex Bennée wrote:
>
> zhanghailiang writes:
>
>> The function fopen() may fail, so check its return value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang<zhang.zhanghailiang@huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: Li Liu<john.liuli@huawei.com>
>> ---
>>   tests/bios-tables-test.c | 2 ++
>>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/bios-tables-test.c b/tests/bios-tables-test.c
>> index 045eb27..6a357c0 100644
>> --- a/tests/bios-tables-test.c
>> +++ b/tests/bios-tables-test.c
>> @@ -790,6 +790,8 @@ int main(int argc, char *argv[])
>>       const char *arch = qtest_get_arch();
>>       FILE *f = fopen(disk, "w");
>>       int ret;
>> +
>> +    g_assert(f != NULL);
>>       fwrite(boot_sector, 1, sizeof boot_sector, f);
>>       fclose(f);
>
> Incorrect use of g_assert. An assertion is a test for things that
> shouldn't happen so in this case it's saying:
>
>   * this function assumes files will always successfully open
>
> Which is not the case. It's quite possible that a fopen will fail and
> the correct behaviour is to handle the error, not assert out.
>
>

Good catch! That is a low grade fault, i will correct it! Thanks, Alex

Best regards,
zhanghailiang