Re: [RFC v5 051/126] vfio-ccw: introduce ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE

[Cornelia Huck]

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 19:04:37 +0300
Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden> wrote:

> If we want to add some info to errp (by error_prepend() or
> error_append_hint()), we must use the ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE macro.
> Otherwise, this info will not be added when errp == &fatal_err
> (the program will exit prior to the error_append_hint() or
> error_prepend() call).  Fix such cases.
> 
> If we want to check error after errp-function call, we need to
> introduce local_err and than propagate it to errp. Instead, use
> ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE macro, benefits are:
> 1. No need of explicit error_propagate call
> 2. No need of explicit local_err variable: use errp directly
> 3. ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE leaves errp as is if it's not NULL or
>    &error_fatel, this means that we don't break error_abort
>    (we'll abort on error_set, not on error_propagate)
> 
> This commit (together with its neighbors) was generated by
> 
> for f in $(git grep -l errp \*.[ch]); do \
>     spatch --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/auto-propagated-errp.cocci \
>     --macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h --in-place --no-show-diff $f; \
> done;
> 
> then fix a bit of compilation problems: coccinelle for some reason
> leaves several
> f() {
>     ...
>     goto out;
>     ...
>     out:
> }
> patterns, with "out:" at function end.
> 
> then
> ./python/commit-per-subsystem.py MAINTAINERS "$(< auto-msg)"
> 
> (auto-msg was a file with this commit message)
> 
> Still, for backporting it may be more comfortable to use only the first
> command and then do one huge commit.
> 
> Reported-by: Kevin Wolf <address@hidden>
> Reported-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/s390x/s390-ccw.c | 19 +++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck <address@hidden>