Just return NULL; any callers that cause a change in behavior would have caused an assertion failure before, so this is safe.
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> --- include/qom/object.h | 1 + qom/object.c | 5 +++-- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/qom/object.h b/include/qom/object.h index 96ce81b..a0c78c7 100644 --- a/include/qom/object.h +++ b/include/qom/object.h @@ -1302,6 +1302,7 @@ Object *object_get_internal_root(void); * * Returns: The final component in the object's canonical path. The canonical * path is the path within the composition tree starting from the root. + * %NULL if the object doesn't have a parent (and thus a canonical path). */ gchar *object_get_canonical_path_component(Object *obj); diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c index 76a89af..0fc9720 100644 --- a/qom/object.c +++ b/qom/object.c @@ -1644,8 +1644,9 @@ gchar *object_get_canonical_path_component(Object *obj) ObjectProperty *prop = NULL; GHashTableIter iter; - g_assert(obj); - g_assert(obj->parent != NULL); + if (obj->parent == NULL) { + return NULL; + } g_hash_table_iter_init(&iter, obj->parent->properties); while (g_hash_table_iter_next(&iter, NULL, (gpointer *)&prop)) { -- 1.8.3.1