error: Fix use of error_prepend() with &error_fatal, &error_abort

From include/qapi/error.h:

  * Pass an existing error to the caller with the message modified:
  *     error_propagate(errp, err);
  *     error_prepend(errp, "Could not frobnicate '%s': ", name);

Fei Li pointed out that doing error_propagate() first doesn't work
well when @errp is &error_fatal or &error_abort: the error_prepend()
is never reached.

Since I doubt fixing the documentation will stop people from getting
it wrong, introduce error_propagate_prepend(), in the hope that it
lures people away from using its constituents in the wrong order.
Update the instructions in error.h accordingly.

Convert existing error_prepend() next to error_propagate to
error_propagate_prepend().  If any of these get reached with
&error_fatal or &error_abort, the error messages improve.  I didn't
check whether that's the case anywhere.

Cc: Fei Li <fli@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20181017082702.5581-2-armbru@redhat.com>
This commit is contained in:
Markus Armbruster 2018-10-17 10:26:25 +02:00
parent d7ecf71238
commit 4b5766488f
13 changed files with 61 additions and 33 deletions

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@ -1546,9 +1546,9 @@ static GSList *migration_blockers;
int migrate_add_blocker(Error *reason, Error **errp)
{
if (migrate_get_current()->only_migratable) {
error_propagate(errp, error_copy(reason));
error_prepend(errp, "disallowing migration blocker "
"(--only_migratable) for: ");
error_propagate_prepend(errp, error_copy(reason),
"disallowing migration blocker "
"(--only_migratable) for: ");
return -EACCES;
}
@ -1557,9 +1557,9 @@ int migrate_add_blocker(Error *reason, Error **errp)
return 0;
}
error_propagate(errp, error_copy(reason));
error_prepend(errp, "disallowing migration blocker (migration in "
"progress) for: ");
error_propagate_prepend(errp, error_copy(reason),
"disallowing migration blocker "
"(migration in progress) for: ");
return -EBUSY;
}