Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v4 12/17] vfio/platform: fix a wrong returned value in vfio_populate_device

[Auger Eric]

Hi,

On 04/10/2016 14:48, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Eric Auger <address@hidden> writes:
> 
>> In case the vfio_init_intp fails we currently do not return an
>> error value. This patch fixes the bug. The returned value is not
>> explicit but in practice the error object is the one used to
>> report the error to the end-user and the actual returned error
>> value is not used.
> 
> The function's contract permits this by neglecting to say anything about
> the return value %-)
Yes the error is severe enough to tear things down. I dared to keep it
as is since the error now is reported in the Error object.

Thanks

Eric
> 
> The callers don't actually care about the value.
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Eric Auger <address@hidden>
>> ---
>>  hw/vfio/platform.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/vfio/platform.c b/hw/vfio/platform.c
>> index 1a35da0..484e31f 100644
>> --- a/hw/vfio/platform.c
>> +++ b/hw/vfio/platform.c
>> @@ -508,6 +508,7 @@ static int vfio_populate_device(VFIODevice *vbasedev, 
>> Error **errp)
>>                                                      irq.flags);
>>              intp = vfio_init_intp(vbasedev, irq, errp);
>>              if (!intp) {
>> +                ret = -1;
>>                  goto irq_err;
>>              }
>>          }
>