[Qemu-devel] [PATCH 3/6] qdict: Make conversion from QObject * accept null

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

qobject_to_qdict() crashes on null, which is a trap for the unwary.
Return null instead, and simplify a few callers.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 qga/main.c      | 11 +++--------
 qobject/qdict.c |  6 +++---
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qga/main.c b/qga/main.c
index d8e063a..4eb0310 100644
--- a/qga/main.c
+++ b/qga/main.c
@@ -567,7 +567,6 @@ static void process_command(GAState *s, QDict *req)
 static void process_event(JSONMessageParser *parser, QList *tokens)
 {
     GAState *s = container_of(parser, GAState, parser);
-    QObject *obj;
     QDict *qdict;
     Error *err = NULL;
     int ret;
@@ -575,9 +574,9 @@ static void process_event(JSONMessageParser *parser, QList *tokens)
     g_assert(s && parser);
 
     g_debug("process_event: called");
-    obj = json_parser_parse_err(tokens, NULL, &err);
-    if (err || !obj || qobject_type(obj) != QTYPE_QDICT) {
-        qobject_decref(obj);
+    qdict = qobject_to_qdict(json_parser_parse_err(tokens, NULL, &err));
+    if (err || !qdict) {
+        QDECREF(qdict);
         qdict = qdict_new();
         if (!err) {
             g_warning("failed to parse event: unknown error");
@@ -587,12 +586,8 @@ static void process_event(JSONMessageParser *parser, QList *tokens)
         }
         qdict_put_obj(qdict, "error", qmp_build_error_object(err));
         error_free(err);
-    } else {
-        qdict = qobject_to_qdict(obj);
     }
 
-    g_assert(qdict);
-
     /* handle host->guest commands */
     if (qdict_haskey(qdict, "execute")) {
         process_command(s, qdict);
diff --git a/qobject/qdict.c b/qobject/qdict.c
index f179f4e..6b32285 100644
--- a/qobject/qdict.c
+++ b/qobject/qdict.c
@@ -46,9 +46,9 @@ QDict *qdict_new(void)
  */
 QDict *qobject_to_qdict(const QObject *obj)
 {
-    if (qobject_type(obj) != QTYPE_QDICT)
+    if (!obj || qobject_type(obj) != QTYPE_QDICT) {
         return NULL;
-
+    }
     return container_of(obj, QDict, base);
 }
 
@@ -269,7 +269,7 @@ QList *qdict_get_qlist(const QDict *qdict, const char *key)
  */
 QDict *qdict_get_qdict(const QDict *qdict, const char *key)
 {
-    return qobject_to_qdict(qdict_get_obj(qdict, key, QTYPE_QDICT));
+    return qobject_to_qdict(qdict_get(qdict, key));
 }
 
 /**
-- 
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