[PATCH] vl: Fix an assert failure in error path

From: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: pbonzini@redhat.com, Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
Subject: [PATCH] vl: Fix an assert failure in error path
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:47:41 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210610084741.456260-1-zhenzhong.duan@intel.com> (raw)

Based on the description of error_setg(), the local variable err in
qemu_maybe_daemonize() should be initialized to NULL.

Without fix, the uninitialized *errp triggers assert failure which
doesn't show much valuable information.

Before the fix:
qemu-system-x86_64: ../util/error.c:59: error_setv: Assertion `*errp == NULL' failed.

After fix:
qemu-system-x86_64: cannot create PID file: Cannot open pid file: Permission denied

Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan <zhenzhong.duan@intel.com>
---
 softmmu/vl.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index 326c1e9080..feb4d201f3 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -2522,7 +2522,7 @@ static void qemu_process_help_options(void)
 
 static void qemu_maybe_daemonize(const char *pid_file)
 {
-    Error *err;
+    Error *err = NULL;
 
     os_daemonize();
     rcu_disable_atfork();
-- 
2.25.1


