Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2] block: mirror - use local_err to avoid NULL errp

[Eric Blake]

On 02/13/2014 07:23 AM, Jeff Cody wrote:
> 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.
> 
> To avoid this, use a local Error variable, and then propagate the error
> (if any) to errp.
> 
> Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <address@hidden>
> ---
>  block/mirror.c | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c
> index 2a43334..ddb5765 100644
> --- a/block/mirror.c
> +++ b/block/mirror.c
> @@ -633,6 +633,8 @@ void commit_active_start(BlockDriverState *bs, 
> BlockDriverState *base,
>  {
>      int64_t length, base_length;
>      int orig_base_flags;
> +    Error *local_err = NULL;
> +
>  
>      orig_base_flags = bdrv_get_flags(base);

Why the double blank line?

Besides that,
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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Eric Blake   eblake redhat com    +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org

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