Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/6] error: Add error_abort

[Eric Blake]

On 12/05/2013 03:13 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote:

>>
>> For error_propagate, if the destination error is &error_abort, then
>> the abort happens at propagation time.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <address@hidden>
>> ---
>> changed since v1:
>> Delayed assertions that *errp == NULL.
> 
> Care to explain why you want to delay these assertions?  I'm not sure I
> get it...

error_abort as a global variable is always NULL.

> 
> [...]
>> @@ -31,7 +33,6 @@ void error_set(Error **errp, ErrorClass err_class, const 
>> char *fmt, ...)
>>      if (errp == NULL) {
>>          return;
>>      }
>> -    assert(*errp == NULL);

So *&error_abort is null and this assertion would fire, unless we delay
the check for NULL...

>>  
>>      err = g_malloc0(sizeof(*err));
>>  
>> @@ -40,6 +41,12 @@ void error_set(Error **errp, ErrorClass err_class, const 
>> char *fmt, ...)
>>      va_end(ap);
>>      err->err_class = err_class;
>>  
>> +    if (errp == &error_abort) {
>> +        error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err));
>> +        abort();
>> +    }
>> +
>> +    assert(*errp == NULL);

...until after the check for &error_abort.

-- 
Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
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