Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] pci: fixed mismatch of error-handling between pci_qdev_init() and qdev

["Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@redhat.com>]

On Wed, Nov 05, 2014 at 07:11:51PM +0900, SeokYeon Hwang wrote:
> pci_qdev_init() checks whether return value is 0 or not to figure out pci device is initialized successfully. Otherwise, device_realize() in qdev checks that return value is negative value to figure out the device is realized successfully.
> When pci device returns positive number, pci_qdev_init() thinks that error is occured and makes the device unregistered. Nevertheless, qdev thinks that device is realized.
> Finally, crash is occured by commands like 'qtree' that traverse qdev list.
> 
> So, pci_qdev_init() returns -1 when init function returns not 0.
> 
> Signed-off-by: SeokYeon Hwang <syeon.hwang@samsung.com>

Question: is there a simple way to trigger this error?

> ---
>  hw/pci/pci.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/pci/pci.c b/hw/pci/pci.c
> index 371699c..c149fdf 100644
> --- a/hw/pci/pci.c
> +++ b/hw/pci/pci.c
> @@ -1766,7 +1766,7 @@ static int pci_qdev_init(DeviceState *qdev)
>          rc = pc->init(pci_dev);
>          if (rc != 0) {
>              do_pci_unregister_device(pci_dev);
> -            return rc;
> +            return -1;
>          }
>      }
>  
> -- 
> 2.1.0