qapi: Clean up visitor's recovery from input with invalid type

An alternate type's visit_type_FOO() fails when it runs into an
invalid ->type.  If it's an input visit, we then need to free the the
object we got from visit_start_alternate().  We do that with
qapi_free_FOO(), which uses the dealloc visitor.

Trouble is that object is in a bad state: its ->type is invalid.  So
the dealloc visitor will run into the same error again, and the error
recovery skips deallocating the alternate's (invalid) alternative.
Works, because qapi_free_FOO() ignores the error.

Avoid it instead: free the messed up object with by g_free().

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200424084338.26803-11-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qapi/visit.py b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
index e3467b770b..678109dfb5 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi/visit.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi/visit.py
@@ -234,6 +234,9 @@ void visit_type_%(c_name)s(Visitor *v, const char *name, %(c_name)s **obj, Error
     default:
         error_setg(&err, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name ? name : "null",
                    "%(name)s");
+        /* Avoid passing invalid *obj to qapi_free_%(c_name)s() */
+        g_free(*obj);
+        *obj = NULL;
     }
 out_obj:
     visit_end_alternate(v, (void **)obj);