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| -rw-r--r-- | qemu-char.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c index 5a7975f393..17b476edf0 100644 --- a/qemu-char.c +++ b/qemu-char.c @@ -3798,7 +3798,13 @@ ChardevReturn *qmp_chardev_add(const char *id, ChardevBackend *backend, break; } - if (chr == NULL && !error_is_set(errp)) { + /* + * Character backend open hasn't been fully converted to the Error + * API. Some opens fail without setting an error. Set a generic + * error then. + * TODO full conversion to Error API + */ + if (chr == NULL && errp && !*errp) { error_setg(errp, "Failed to create chardev"); } if (chr) { |