Re: [PULL v2 05/25] error: add global &error_warn destination

[Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>]

On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 16:00, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>
>
> On 4/6/23 10:36, Peter Maydell wrote:
> > On Thu, 6 Apr 2023 at 15:13, Stefan Berger <stefanb@linux.ibm.com> wrote:
> >> I'll be out starting tomorrow. I don't see Marc-André online.
> >>
> >> Would this be acceptable?
> >> It ensures that if error_handle() returns, err has been freed.
> >> In the other two cases a copy is being made of the Error that can then be used after the error_handle() call.
> >
> > "Not error_warn" is the common case, so it doesn't seem
> > great to copy the error around like that. My thoughts were
> > either:
> >   (1) error_handle() should handle all of the error cases,
> > like this:
> >
> >      if (errp == &error_abort) {
> >         ...
> >         abort();
> >      }
> >      if (errp == &error_fatal) {
> >         ...
> >         exit(1);
> >      }
> >      if (errp = &error_warn) {
> >          warn_report_err(err);
> >      } else if (errp && !*errp) {
> >          *errp = err;
> >      } else {
> >          error_free(err);
> >      }
> >
> > and delete the "set *errp" logic from the callers.
>
>
> Like this?
>
> diff --git a/util/error.c b/util/error.c
> index 5537245da6..e5e247209a 100644
> --- a/util/error.c
> +++ b/util/error.c
> @@ -46,6 +46,10 @@ static void error_handle(Error **errp, Error *err)
>       }
>       if (errp == &error_warn) {
>           warn_report_err(err);
> +    } else if (errp && !*errp) {
> +        *errp = err;
> +    } else {
> +        error_free(err);
>       }
>   }
>
> @@ -76,7 +80,6 @@ static void error_setv(Error **errp,
>       err->func = func;
>
>       error_handle(errp, err);
> -    *errp = err;
>
>       errno = saved_errno;
>   }
> @@ -289,11 +292,6 @@ void error_propagate(Error **dst_errp, Error *local_err)
>           return;
>       }
>       error_handle(dst_errp, local_err);
> -    if (dst_errp && !*dst_errp) {
> -        *dst_errp = local_err;
> -    } else {
> -        error_free(local_err);
> -    }
>   }
>
>   void error_propagate_prepend(Error **dst_errp, Error *err,

Yes, that's what I had in mind.

-- PMM