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Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: mirror - insure that errp is not NULL
From: |
Fam Zheng |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] block: mirror - insure that errp is not NULL |
Date: |
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 14:46:35 +0800 |
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Mutt/1.5.22 (2013-10-16) |
On Thu, 02/13 07:40, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Jeff Cody <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > When starting a block job, commit_active_start() relies on whether *errp
> > is set by mirror_start_job. This allows it to determine if the mirror
> > job start failed, so that it can clean up any changes to open flags from
> > the bdrv_reopen(). If errp is NULL, then it will not be able to
> > determine if mirror_start_job failed or not.
> >
> > Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> > Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> > ---
> > block/mirror.c | 2 ++
> > 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
> > index 2a43334..41bb83c 100644
> > --- a/block/mirror.c
> > +++ b/block/mirror.c
> > @@ -634,6 +634,8 @@ void commit_active_start(BlockDriverState *bs,
> > BlockDriverState *base,
> > int64_t length, base_length;
> > int orig_base_flags;
> >
> > + assert(errp != NULL);
> > +
> > orig_base_flags = bdrv_get_flags(base);
> >
> > if (bdrv_reopen(base, bs->open_flags, errp)) {
>
> Needed, because:
>
> mirror_start_job(bs, base, speed, 0, 0,
> on_error, on_error, cb, opaque, errp,
> &commit_active_job_driver, false, base);
> if (error_is_set(errp)) {
>
> When your callers may legitimately ignore errors, you have to do
> something like
>
> local_err = NULL;
> mirror_start_job(bs, base, speed, 0, 0,
> on_error, on_error, cb, opaque, &local_err,
> &commit_active_job_driver, false, base);
> error_propagate(errp, local_err);
> if (local_err) {
>
> But here, the assertion should do fine.
Thanks for the explanation!
Reviewed-by: Fam Zheng <address@hidden>