Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] QOM: Fail casts for unknown types

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 30/04/2013 15:02, Alexander Graf ha scritto:
> When we try to cast an object to an unknown type, fail the cast. Today
> we would simply run into an assert().
> 
> This fixes a bug on qemu-system-s390x for me that gets triggered by the
> audio code looking for PCI and ISA buses.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>

Seems a better solution than guarding the object_resolve_path_type with
an if.

Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Paolo

> ---
>  qom/object.c |    5 +++++
>  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
> index dd53d24..75e6aac 100644
> --- a/qom/object.c
> +++ b/qom/object.c
> @@ -453,6 +453,11 @@ ObjectClass *object_class_dynamic_cast(ObjectClass *class,
>      TypeImpl *type = class->type;
>      ObjectClass *ret = NULL;
>  
> +    if (!target_type) {
> +        /* target class type unknown, so fail the cast */
> +        return NULL;
> +    }
> +
>      if (type->class->interfaces &&
>              type_is_ancestor(target_type, type_interface)) {
>          int found = 0;
>