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* [PATCH] error: Fix "Converting to ERRP_GUARD()" doc on "valid at return"
@ 2021-01-25 13:26 Markus Armbruster
  2021-01-25 13:54 ` Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
  2021-01-25 15:07 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Markus Armbruster @ 2021-01-25 13:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel; +Cc: vsementsov

Setting errp = NULL is wrong: the automatic error propagation still
propagates the dangling pointer _auto_errp_prop.local_err.  We need to
set *errp = NULL to clear the dangling pointer.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 include/qapi/error.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/include/qapi/error.h b/include/qapi/error.h
index eaa05c4837..4a9260b0cc 100644
--- a/include/qapi/error.h
+++ b/include/qapi/error.h
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@
  *    error_propagate_prepend(errp, *errp, ...) by error_prepend(errp, ...)
  *
  * 4. Ensure @errp is valid at return: when you destroy *errp, set
- *    errp = NULL.
+ *    *errp = NULL.
  *
  * Example:
  *
-- 
2.26.2



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