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From: =?UTF-8?q?Marc-Andr=C3=A9=20Lureau?= <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 16:06:07 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 06/14] error: Fix examples in error.h's big comment
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RH-Author: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Message-id: <20201216160615.324213-3-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Patchwork-id: 100473
O-Subject: [RHEL-8.4.0 qemu-kvm PATCH v2 02/10] error: Fix examples in error.h's big comment
Bugzilla: 1859494
RH-Acked-by: Danilo de Paula <ddepaula@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Sergio Lopez Pascual <slp@redhat.com>
RH-Acked-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>

From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

Mark a bad example more clearly.  Fix the error_propagate_prepend()
example.  Add a missing declaration and a second error pileup example.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@virtuozzo.com>
Reviewed-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
Message-Id: <20200707160613.848843-2-armbru@redhat.com>

(cherry picked from commit 47ff5ac81e8bb3096500de7b132051691d533d36)
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Danilo C. L. de Paula <ddepaula@redhat.com>
---
 include/qapi/error.h | 16 ++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/qapi/error.h b/include/qapi/error.h
index 3f95141a01a..83c38f9a188 100644
--- a/include/qapi/error.h
+++ b/include/qapi/error.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
  *                       "charm, top, bottom.\n");
  *
  * Do *not* contract this to
- *     error_setg(&err, "invalid quark\n"
+ *     error_setg(&err, "invalid quark\n" // WRONG!
  *                "Valid quarks are up, down, strange, charm, top, bottom.");
  *
  * Report an error to the current monitor if we have one, else stderr:
@@ -52,7 +52,8 @@
  * where Error **errp is a parameter, by convention the last one.
  *
  * Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified:
- *     error_propagate_prepend(errp, err);
+ *     error_propagate_prepend(errp, err,
+ *                             "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);
  *
  * Avoid
  *     error_propagate(errp, err);
@@ -108,12 +109,23 @@
  *     }
  *
  * Do *not* "optimize" this to
+ *     Error *err = NULL;
  *     foo(arg, &err);
  *     bar(arg, &err); // WRONG!
  *     if (err) {
  *         handle the error...
  *     }
  * because this may pass a non-null err to bar().
+ *
+ * Likewise, do *not*
+ *     Error *err = NULL;
+ *     if (cond1) {
+ *         error_setg(&err, ...);
+ *     }
+ *     if (cond2) {
+ *         error_setg(&err, ...); // WRONG!
+ *     }
+ * because this may pass a non-null err to error_setg().
  */
 
 #ifndef ERROR_H
-- 
2.27.0

