[libvirt] [PATCH] tests: do not ignore virInitialize failure

Jim Meyering jim at meyering.net
Tue May 18 15:25:20 UTC 2010


Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/18/2010 04:33 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>> Simple...
>>
>>>From f5ee09ed08473478b3ea3135d51125fbf687e402 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>> From: Jim Meyering <meyering at redhat.com>
>> Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:32:39 +0200
>> Subject: [PATCH] tests: do not ignore virInitialize failure
>>
>> * tests/nodeinfotest.c (mymain): Do not ignore virInitialize failure.
>> Most other callers of virInitialize test for failure.
>> ---
>>  tests/nodeinfotest.c |    3 ++-
>>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/nodeinfotest.c b/tests/nodeinfotest.c
>> index ff056b9..d3c500d 100644
>> --- a/tests/nodeinfotest.c
>> +++ b/tests/nodeinfotest.c
>> @@ -106,7 +106,8 @@ mymain(int argc, char **argv)
>>          return(EXIT_FAILURE);
>>      }
>>
>> -    virInitialize();
>> +    if (virInitialize() < 0)
>> +        return EXIT_FAILURE;
>
> Shouldn't we be adding ATTRIBUTE_RETURN_CHECK to virInitialize in the
> appropriate header, to let the compiler enforce us to do the checking?

That would be nice, but the declaration of virInitialize
is in libvirt.h.in, and I am leery of adding new symbols in such
an exposed header, in spite of the few that are already there, e.g.,

  #ifndef VIR_DEPRECATED
    /* The feature is present in gcc-3.1 and newer.  */
  # if __GNUC__ > 3 || (__GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ >= 1)
  #  define VIR_DEPRECATED __attribute__((__deprecated__))
  # else
  #  define VIR_DEPRECATED /* nothing */
  # endif
  #endif /* VIR_DEPRECATED */

Since my change does address the coverity-spotted problem,
I'd prefer to keep this small and defer the more proactive
(but riskier) change to a separate change set.




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