Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: mirror - use local_err to avoid NULL errp

[Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 09:23:38AM -0500, Jeff Cody wrote:
> When starting a block job, commit_active_start() relies on whether *errp
> is set by mirror_start_job.  This allows it to determine if the mirror
> job start failed, so that it can clean up any changes to open flags from
> the bdrv_reopen().  If errp is NULL, then it will not be able to
> determine if mirror_start_job failed or not.
> 
> To avoid this, use a local Error variable, and then propagate the error
> (if any) to errp.
> 
> Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jcody@redhat.com>
> ---
>  block/mirror.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan