Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qdev: Fix qdev_try_create() semantics

["Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>]

Am 17.02.2012 02:47, schrieb Andreas Färber:
> Since QOM'ification, qdev_try_create() uses object_new() internally,
> which asserts "type != NULL" when the type is not registered.
> This was revealed by the combination of kvmclock's kvm_enabled() check
> and early QOM type registration.
> 
> Check whether the class exists before calling object_new(), so that
> the caller (e.g., qdev_create) can fail gracefully, telling us which
> device could not be created.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Färber <afaerber@suse.de>
> Cc: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@codemonkey.ws>

Er, it's late here... ;)

As one can guess I've managed to convert x86. Still need to cleanup but
I pushed my work branch for the curious (and as backup!):

http://repo.or.cz/w/qemu/afaerber.git/shortlog/refs/heads/qom-cpu

Andreas

> ---
>  hw/qdev.c |    3 +++
>  1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c
> index f0eb3a7..ee21d90 100644
> --- a/hw/qdev.c
> +++ b/hw/qdev.c
> @@ -117,6 +117,9 @@ DeviceState *qdev_try_create(BusState *bus, const char *name)
>  {
>      DeviceState *dev;
>  
> +    if (object_class_by_name(name) == NULL) {
> +        return NULL;
> +    }
>      dev = DEVICE(object_new(name));
>      if (!dev) {
>          return NULL;

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