Re: [PATCH-for-5.1? v2] qapi/error: Check format string argument in error_*prepend()

[Markus Armbruster]

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> writes:

> error_propagate_prepend() "behaves like error_prepend()", and
> error_prepend() uses "formatting @fmt, ... like printf()".
> error_prepend() checks its format string argument, but
> error_propagate_prepend() does not. Fix by addint the format

s/addint/adding/

> attribute to error_propagate_prepend() and error_vprepend().
>
> This would have caught the bug fixed in the previous commit:
>
>     CC      hw/sd/milkymist-memcard.o
>   hw/sd/milkymist-memcard.c: In function ‘milkymist_memcard_realize’:
>   hw/sd/milkymist-memcard.c:284:70: error: format ‘%s’ expects a matching 
> ‘char *’ argument [-Werror=format=]
>     284 |         error_propagate_prepend(errp, err, "failed to init SD card: 
> %s");
>         |                                                                     
> ~^
>         |                                                                     
>  |
>         |                                                                     
>  char *

I see no need to repeat the details here.  If you agree, I'll drop them
in my tree.

> Missed in commit 4b5766488f "error: Fix use of error_prepend() with
> &error_fatal, &error_abort".
>
> Inspired-by: Stefan Weil <sw@weilnetz.de>
> Suggested-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>