Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 3/6] qemu-img convert: Support multiple -o options

[Eric Blake]

On 02/20/2014 12:33 PM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 03:57:20PM +0100, Kevin Wolf wrote:
>> Instead of ignoring all option values but the last one, multiple -o
>> options now have the same meaning as having a single option with all
>> settings in the order of their respective -o options.
>>

> There is a 'return -1' that is missed, that I think needs to be 'goto
> out;' for cleanup.  It is right after the call to
> bdrv_parse_cache_flags() in the img_convert() function:
> 
>     ret = bdrv_parse_cache_flags(cache, &flags);
>     if (ret < 0) {
>         error_report("Invalid cache option: %s", cache);
>         return -1;
>     }
> 
> Looks like this has been this way for a while, though.  And this is an
> instance (the only instance) where img_convert returns -1 instead of 0
> or 1.  I'm not sure the implications if that changed, and became '1',
> so we'd probably want to preserve the return value.

No, exit status of 255 on an invalid cache option is a bug; fixing it to
return EXIT_FAILURE (1) is indeed correct.

[Hmm, this shows that I only reviewed the changed sections, rather than
also looking for all other 'return' statements - thanks Jeff for the
more thorough review]

> 
> Since this doesn't have anything to do with this patch (although
> leaking 'options' now, in addition to the other stuff leaked), I'll go
> ahead and give my reviewed-by, and we can fix this in another
> follow-up patch:

Agreed to that plan of attack (we've now racked up several good followups).

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