Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] error: Remove NULL checks on error_propagate() calls

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Jun 09, 2016 at 01:37:23PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
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> 
> Hmm - it seems like in most of the cases where the ONLY thing done in
> the if (local_err) block is to propagate the error, we should instead be
> directly assigning to errp instead of wasting a local variable.  At this
> point, my review is repetitive enough that I'll stop looking, and leave
> it up to you and Markus whether to attempt a more ambitious Coccinelle
> script.

If it happens immediately before the function end or a return
statement it should be easy, but it would still require some
manual work to remove the unused variable declaration. Probably
easier to do that in a follow-up patch.

It's harder (impossible?) to make Coccinelle avoid matching if
local_err is used somewhere else in the function. But it's
probably doable with some manual work, in a follow-up patch.

-- 
Eduardo