From 4b5766488fd3549dc47a75331cf4db62f477536c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Markus Armbruster Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2018 10:26:25 +0200 Subject: error: Fix use of error_prepend() with &error_fatal, &error_abort MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From include/qapi/error.h: * Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified: * error_propagate(errp, err); * error_prepend(errp, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name); Fei Li pointed out that doing error_propagate() first doesn't work well when @errp is &error_fatal or &error_abort: the error_prepend() is never reached. Since I doubt fixing the documentation will stop people from getting it wrong, introduce error_propagate_prepend(), in the hope that it lures people away from using its constituents in the wrong order. Update the instructions in error.h accordingly. Convert existing error_prepend() next to error_propagate to error_propagate_prepend(). If any of these get reached with &error_fatal or &error_abort, the error messages improve. I didn't check whether that's the case anywhere. Cc: Fei Li Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé Reviewed-by: Eric Blake Message-Id: <20181017082702.5581-2-armbru@redhat.com> --- hw/timer/aspeed_timer.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'hw/timer') diff --git a/hw/timer/aspeed_timer.c b/hw/timer/aspeed_timer.c index 54b400b94a..5c786e5128 100644 --- a/hw/timer/aspeed_timer.c +++ b/hw/timer/aspeed_timer.c @@ -454,8 +454,7 @@ static void aspeed_timer_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp) obj = object_property_get_link(OBJECT(dev), "scu", &err); if (!obj) { - error_propagate(errp, err); - error_prepend(errp, "required link 'scu' not found: "); + error_propagate_prepend(errp, err, "required link 'scu' not found: "); return; } s->scu = ASPEED_SCU(obj); -- cgit v1.2.3