Commits b6d7e9b66f..a43770df5d simplified the error propagation.
Similarly to commit 6fd5bef10b "qom: Make functions taking Error**
return bool, not void", let fw_cfg_add_from_generator() return a
boolean value, not void.
This allow to simplify parse_fw_cfg() and fixes the error handling
issue reported by Coverity (CID 1430396):
In parse_fw_cfg():
Variable assigned once to a constant guards dead code.
Local variable local_err is assigned only once, to a constant
value, making it effectively constant throughout its scope.
If this is not the intent, examine the logic to see if there
is a missing assignment that would make local_err not remain
constant.
It's the call of fw_cfg_add_from_generator():
Error *local_err = NULL;
fw_cfg_add_from_generator(fw_cfg, name, gen_id, errp);
if (local_err) {
error_propagate(errp, local_err);
return -1;
}
return 0;
If it fails, parse_fw_cfg() sets an error and returns 0, which is
wrong. Harmless, because the only caller passes &error_fatal.
Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Fixes: Coverity CID 1430396: 'Constant' variable guards dead code (DEADCODE)
Fixes: 6552d87c48 ("softmmu/vl: Let -fw_cfg option take a 'gen_id' argument")
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200721131911.27380-3-philmd@redhat.com>
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