Re: [PATCH] migration: Fix parse_ramblock() on overwritten retvals

[Juan Quintela <quintela@redhat.com>]

Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> wrote:
> It's possible that some errors can be overwritten with success retval later
> on, and then ignored.  Always capture all errors and report.
>
> Reported by Coverity 1522861, but actually I spot one more in the same
> function.
>
> Fixes: CID 1522861
> Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
> ---
>  migration/ram.c | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/migration/ram.c b/migration/ram.c
> index c844151ee9..d8bdb53a8f 100644
> --- a/migration/ram.c
> +++ b/migration/ram.c
> @@ -3888,6 +3888,8 @@ static int parse_ramblock(QEMUFile *f, RAMBlock *block, ram_addr_t length)
>          ret = qemu_ram_resize(block, length, &local_err);
>          if (local_err) {
>              error_report_err(local_err);
> +            assert(ret < 0);
> +            return ret;

I hate that assert.  If you really want that:


         if (ret < 0) {
            error_report_err(local_err);
            assert(ret < 0);
            return ret;
         }

Rest of the patch looks ok.

Later, Juan.