Commit 518d1458bd for qemu.org

commit 518d1458bdb0f83e992057fd1fa39b768c3216ae
Author: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
Date:   Thu Jan 15 17:46:04 2026 +0300

    chardev/char: qemu_char_open(): add return value

    Accordingly with recommendations in include/qapi/error.h accompany
    errp by boolean return value and get rid of error propagation.

    Signed-off-by: Vladimir Sementsov-Ogievskiy <vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>
    Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
    Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
    Message-Id: <20260115144606.233252-11-vsementsov@yandex-team.ru>

diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c
index 3373c9b61f..5d00cac2f3 100644
--- a/chardev/char.c
+++ b/chardev/char.c
@@ -246,7 +246,7 @@ int qemu_chr_add_client(Chardev *s, int fd)
         CHARDEV_GET_CLASS(s)->chr_add_client(s, fd) : -1;
 }

-static void qemu_char_open(Chardev *chr, ChardevBackend *backend, Error **errp)
+static bool qemu_char_open(Chardev *chr, ChardevBackend *backend, Error **errp)
 {
     ChardevClass *cc = CHARDEV_GET_CLASS(chr);
     /* Any ChardevCommon member would work */
@@ -262,13 +262,15 @@ static void qemu_char_open(Chardev *chr, ChardevBackend *backend, Error **errp)
         }
         chr->logfd = qemu_create(common->logfile, flags, 0666, errp);
         if (chr->logfd < 0) {
-            return;
+            return false;
         }
     }

-    if (cc->chr_open) {
-        cc->chr_open(chr, backend, errp);
+    if (!cc->chr_open) {
+        return true;
     }
+
+    return cc->chr_open(chr, backend, errp);
 }

 static void char_init(Object *obj)
@@ -1006,7 +1008,6 @@ static Chardev *chardev_new(const char *id, const char *typename,
 {
     Object *obj;
     Chardev *chr = NULL;
-    Error *local_err = NULL;

     assert(g_str_has_prefix(typename, "chardev-"));
     assert(id);
@@ -1017,9 +1018,7 @@ static Chardev *chardev_new(const char *id, const char *typename,
     chr->label = g_strdup(id);
     chr->gcontext = gcontext;

-    qemu_char_open(chr, backend, &local_err);
-    if (local_err) {
-        error_propagate(errp, local_err);
+    if (!qemu_char_open(chr, backend, errp)) {
         object_unref(obj);
         return NULL;
     }