An alternate type's visit_type_FOO() fails when it runs into an
invalid ->type. If it's an input visit, we then need to free the the
object we got from visit_start_alternate(). We do that with
qapi_free_FOO(), which uses the dealloc visitor.
Trouble is that object is in a bad state: its ->type is invalid. So
the dealloc visitor will run into the same error again, and the error
recovery skips deallocating the alternate's (invalid) alternative.
Works, because qapi_free_FOO() ignores the error.
Avoid it instead: free the messed up object with by g_free().
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
---
scripts/qapi/visit.py | 3 +++
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/qapi/visit.py b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
index e3467b770b..678109dfb5 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/visit.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
@@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ void visit_type_%(c_name)s(Visitor *v, const char *name,
%(c_name)s **obj, Error
default:
error_setg(&err, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name ? name : "null",
"%(name)s");
+ /* Avoid passing invalid *obj to qapi_free_%(c_name)s() */
+ g_free(*obj);
+ *obj = NULL;