On 4/6/20 12:47 PM, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
In some places in we put an error into a local Error*, but forget
to check for failure and pass it back to the caller.
Add a Coccinelle patch to catch automatically add the missing code.

s/catch/catch and/


Inspired-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4...@amsat.org>
---
  .../add-missing-error_propagate.cocci         | 30 +++++++++++++++++++
  MAINTAINERS                                   |  1 +
  2 files changed, 31 insertions(+)
  create mode 100644 scripts/coccinelle/add-missing-error_propagate.cocci

diff --git a/scripts/coccinelle/add-missing-error_propagate.cocci 
b/scripts/coccinelle/add-missing-error_propagate.cocci
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..7991c9e2c2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/coccinelle/add-missing-error_propagate.cocci
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+// Add missing error-propagation code where caller provide a Error* argument

provides

+//
+// Copyright: (C) 2020 Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
+// This work is licensed under the terms of the GNU GPLv2 or later.
+//
+// spatch \
+//  --macro-file scripts/cocci-macro-file.h --include-headers \
+//  --sp-file scripts/coccinelle/add-missing-error_propagate.cocci \
+//  --keep-comments --in-place
+//
+// Inspired by 
https://www.mail-archive.com/qemu-devel@nongnu.org/msg691638.html
+
+
+@ add_missing_error_propagate @
+typedef Error;
+Error *local_err;
+identifier func, errp, errfunc1, errfunc2;
+@@
+func(..., Error **errp)
+{
+    <...
+    errfunc1(..., &local_err);
++   if (local_err) {
++       error_propagate(errp, local_err);
++       return;

Do we have to ensure that 'func' returns void? But then again, I guess it's easy enough to validate whether things still compile after this script makes cleanups.

++   }
+    ... when != local_err
+    errfunc2(..., &local_err);
+    ...>
+}
diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS
index 7b58f02efb..14de2a31dc 100644
--- a/MAINTAINERS
+++ b/MAINTAINERS
@@ -2053,6 +2053,7 @@ F: include/qemu/error-report.h
  F: qapi/error.json
  F: util/error.c
  F: util/qemu-error.c
+F: scripts/coccinelle/add-missing-error_propagate.cocci
  F: scripts/coccinelle/err-bad-newline.cocci
  F: scripts/coccinelle/error-use-after-free.cocci
  F: scripts/coccinelle/error_propagate_null.cocci


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Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer
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