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-rw-r--r--include/qapi/error.h5
-rw-r--r--util/error.c6
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/qapi/error.h b/include/qapi/error.h
index d712089f1a..f44c451830 100644
--- a/include/qapi/error.h
+++ b/include/qapi/error.h
@@ -83,6 +83,11 @@ Error *error_copy(const Error *err);
 const char *error_get_pretty(Error *err);
 
 /**
+ * Convenience function to error_report() and free an error object.
+ */
+void error_report_err(Error *);
+
+/**
  * Propagate an error to an indirect pointer to an error.  This function will
  * always transfer ownership of the error reference and handles the case where
  * dst_err is NULL correctly.  Errors after the first are discarded.
diff --git a/util/error.c b/util/error.c
index 2ace0d8dd9..1ff6ae538b 100644
--- a/util/error.c
+++ b/util/error.c
@@ -152,6 +152,12 @@ const char *error_get_pretty(Error *err)
     return err->msg;
 }
 
+void error_report_err(Error *err)
+{
+    error_report("%s", error_get_pretty(err));
+    error_free(err);
+}
+
 void error_free(Error *err)
 {
     if (err) {