[GEDI] [PATCH v4 00/31] error: auto propagated local_err

[Markus Armbruster]

Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov at virtuozzo.com> writes:

> Hi all!
>
> Here is a proposal of auto propagation for local_err, to not call
> error_propagate on every exit point, when we deal with local_err.
>
> There are also two issues with errp:
>
> 1. error_fatal & error_append_hint/error_prepend: user can't see this
> additional info, because exit() happens in error_setg earlier than info
> is added. [Reported by Greg Kurz]

How is this series related to Greg's "[PATCH 00/17] Fix usage of
error_append_hint()"?  Do we need both?

> 2. error_abort & error_propagate: when we wrap
> error_abort by local_err+error_propagate, resulting coredump will
> refer to error_propagate and not to the place where error happened.
> (the macro itself don't fix the issue, but it allows to [3.] drop all
> local_err+error_propagate pattern, which will definitely fix the issue)
> [Reported by Kevin Wolf]
>
> Still, applying new macro to all errp-functions is a huge task, which is
> impossible to solve in one series.
>
> So, here is a minimum: solve only [1.], by adding new macro to all
> errp-functions which wants to call error_append_hint.
>
> v4;
> 02: - check errp to be not NULL
>     - drop Eric's r-b
> 03: add Eric's r-b
> 04: - rename macro to ERRP_AUTO_PROPAGATE [Kevin]
>     - improve comment and commit msg, mention
>       error_prepend
> 05: - handle error_prepend too
>     - use new macro name
>     - drop empty line at the end
>
> commit message for auto-generated commits updated,
> commits regenerated.
>
> I'll use cc-cmd to cc appropriate recipients per patch, still
> cover-letter together with 04-06 patches should be interesting for
> all:
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Big series; let me guess its structure.

> Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy (31):
>   errp: rename errp to errp_in where it is IN-argument
>   hw/core/loader-fit: fix freeing errp in fit_load_fdt
>   net/net: fix local variable shadowing in net_client_init

Preparations.

>   error: auto propagated local_err

The new idea.

>   scripts: add script to fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   python: add commit-per-subsystem.py

Scripts to help you apply it.

>   s390: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   ARM TCG CPUs: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   PowerPC TCG CPUs: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   arm: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   SmartFusion2: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   ASPEED BMCs: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   Boston: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   PowerNV (Non-Virtualized): Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   PCI: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   SCSI: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   USB: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   VFIO: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   vhost: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   virtio: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   virtio-9p: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   XIVE: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   block: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   chardev: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   cmdline: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   QOM: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   Migration: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   Sockets: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   nbd: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   PVRDMA: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage
>   ivshmem: Fix error_append_hint/error_prepend usage

Applying it.

Correct?

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