Re: [PATCH v6 02/11] error: auto propagated local_err

[Paul Durrant <pdurrant@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 10 Jan 2020 at 19:42, Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy
<vsementsov@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
[snip]
> +/*
> + * ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE
> + *
> + * This macro is created to be the first line of a function which use
> + * Error **errp parameter to report error. It's needed only in cases where we
> + * want to use error_prepend, error_append_hint or dereference *errp. It's
> + * still safe (but useless) in other cases.
> + *
> + * If errp is NULL or points to error_fatal, it is rewritten to point to a
> + * local Error object, which will be automatically propagated to the original
> + * errp on function exit (see error_propagator_cleanup).
> + *
> + * After invocation of this macro it is always safe to dereference errp
> + * (as it's not NULL anymore) and to add information (by error_prepend or
> + * error_append_hint)
> + * (as, if it was error_fatal, we swapped it with a local_error to be
> + * propagated on cleanup).
> + *
> + * Note: we don't wrap the error_abort case, as we want resulting coredump
> + * to point to the place where the error happened, not to error_propagate.
> + */
> +#define ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE()                                  \
> +    g_auto(ErrorPropagator) _auto_errp_prop = {.errp = errp};  \
> +    errp = ((errp == NULL || *errp == error_fatal)             \

Perhaps !errp rather than errp == NULL, for brevity.

  Paul

> +            ? &_auto_errp_prop.local_err : errp)
> +
>  /*
>   * Special error destination to abort on error.
>   * See error_setg() and error_propagate() for details.
> --
> 2.21.0
>