When starting a block job, commit_active_start() relies on whether *errp is set by mirror_start_job. This allows it to determine if the mirror job start failed, so that it can clean up any changes to open flags from the bdrv_reopen(). If errp is NULL, then it will not be able to determine if mirror_start_job failed or not.
Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Cody <jc...@redhat.com> --- block/mirror.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/block/mirror.c b/block/mirror.c index 2a43334..41bb83c 100644 --- a/block/mirror.c +++ b/block/mirror.c @@ -634,6 +634,8 @@ void commit_active_start(BlockDriverState *bs, BlockDriverState *base, int64_t length, base_length; int orig_base_flags; + assert(errp != NULL); + orig_base_flags = bdrv_get_flags(base); if (bdrv_reopen(base, bs->open_flags, errp)) { -- 1.8.3.1