qapi: Guarantee NULL obj on input visitor callback error

Our existing input visitors were not very consistent on errors in a
function taking 'TYPE **obj'.  These are start_struct(),
start_alternate(), type_str(), and type_any().  next_list() is
similar, but can't fail (see commit 08f9541).  While all of them set
'*obj' to allocated storage on success, it was not obvious whether
'*obj' was guaranteed safe on failure, or whether it was left
uninitialized.  But a future patch wants to guarantee that
visit_type_FOO() does not leak a partially-constructed obj back to
the caller; it is easier to implement this if we can reliably state
that input visitors assign '*obj' regardless of success or failure,
and that on failure *obj is NULL.  Add assertions to enforce
consistency in the final setting of err vs. *obj.

The opts-visitor start_struct() doesn't set an error, but it
also was doing a weird check for 0 size; all callers pass in
non-zero size if obj is non-NULL.

The testsuite has at least one spot where we no longer need
to pre-initialize a variable prior to a visit; valgrind confirms
that the test is still fine with the cleanup.

A later patch will document the design constraint implemented
here.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1461879932-9020-3-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
[visit_start_alternate()'s assertion tightened, commit message tweaked]
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qapi/string-input-visitor.c b/qapi/string-input-visitor.c
index 97009a6dc7..b55d1995a2 100644
--- a/qapi/string-input-visitor.c
+++ b/qapi/string-input-visitor.c
@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ static void parse_type_str(Visitor *v, const char *name, char **obj,
     if (siv->string) {
         *obj = g_strdup(siv->string);
     } else {
+        *obj = NULL;
         error_setg(errp, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name ? name : "null",
                    "string");
     }