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@ 2013-08-23 13:38 Peter Maydell
  2013-08-23 13:38 ` [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/2] virtio: Remove unnecessary OBJECT casts Peter Maydell
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From: Peter Maydell @ 2013-08-23 13:38 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: qemu-devel
  Cc: Cornelia Huck, Andreas Färber, Alexander Graf,
	Anthony Liguori, patches

This patchset addresses a concern that came up with Andreas' recent
patches for using embedded objects in some of the ARM CPU devices:
object_initialize() doesn't check that there's actually enough space
for the type being added, so if you have:

struct MyDevice {
   ...
   SomeObject obj;
};

    object_initialize(&mydev->obj, "some-object");

then there's no compile time or runtime check that SomeObject
is really big enough for the "some-object" object -- if the
implementation is changed later then there will be silent
memory corruption.

These patches make object_initialize() a macro which can then
use sizeof(*PTR) to pass the size into the implementation to
be checked.

The virtio patch is worth applying anyway -- it removes some
pointless casts which would otherwise have caused false
positives.

Disclaimer: I've eyeballed all the uses of object_initialize()
but I haven't necessarily tested them all.

Peter Maydell (2):
  virtio: Remove unnecessary OBJECT casts
  qom: Make object_initialize and object_initialize_with_type check
    size

 hw/core/qdev.c             |    2 +-
 hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c |   12 ++++++------
 hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.c      |   14 +++++++-------
 hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c     |   16 ++++++++--------
 include/qom/object.h       |   36 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 qom/object.c               |    9 +++++----
 6 files changed, 61 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.9.5

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