[PULL 06/13] hw/misc/ivshmem: Fix missing ERRP_GUARD() for error_prepend()

Philippe Mathieu-Daudé posted 13 patches 1 year, 11 months ago
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[PULL 06/13] hw/misc/ivshmem: Fix missing ERRP_GUARD() for error_prepend()
Posted by Philippe Mathieu-Daudé 1 year, 11 months ago
From: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>

As the comment in qapi/error, passing @errp to error_prepend() requires
ERRP_GUARD():

* = Why, when and how to use ERRP_GUARD() =
*
* Without ERRP_GUARD(), use of the @errp parameter is restricted:
...
* - It should not be passed to error_prepend(), error_vprepend() or
*   error_append_hint(), because that doesn't work with &error_fatal.
* ERRP_GUARD() lifts these restrictions.
*
* To use ERRP_GUARD(), add it right at the beginning of the function.
* @errp can then be used without worrying about the argument being
* NULL or &error_fatal.

ERRP_GUARD() could avoid the case when @errp is &error_fatal, the user
can't see this additional information, because exit() happens in
error_setg earlier than information is added [1].

The ivshmem_common_realize() passes @errp to error_prepend(), and as a
DeviceClass.realize method, there are too many possible callers to check
the impact of this defect; it may or may not be harmless. Thus it is
necessary to protect @errp with ERRP_GUARD().

To avoid the issue like [1] said, add missing ERRP_GUARD() at the
beginning of this function.

[1]: Issue description in the commit message of commit ae7c80a7bd73
     ("error: New macro ERRP_GUARD()").

Cc: Juan Quintela <quintela@trasno.org>
Cc: Manos Pitsidianakis <manos.pitsidianakis@linaro.org>
Cc: Michael Galaxy <mgalaxy@akamai.com>
Cc: Steve Sistare <steven.sistare@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Zhao Liu <zhao1.liu@intel.com>
Message-ID: <20240311033822.3142585-17-zhao1.liu@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
---
 hw/misc/ivshmem.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
index a2fd0bc365..de49d1b8a8 100644
--- a/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
+++ b/hw/misc/ivshmem.c
@@ -832,6 +832,7 @@ static void ivshmem_write_config(PCIDevice *pdev, uint32_t address,
 
 static void ivshmem_common_realize(PCIDevice *dev, Error **errp)
 {
+    ERRP_GUARD();
     IVShmemState *s = IVSHMEM_COMMON(dev);
     Error *err = NULL;
     uint8_t *pci_conf;
-- 
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