From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:52237) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkmlQ-0001gB-NG for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 03:41:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dkmlL-0005D7-RH for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 24 Aug 2017 03:41:16 -0400 From: Thomas Huth Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 09:41:07 +0200 Message-Id: <1503560467-5913-1-git-send-email-thuth@redhat.com> Subject: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/nvram/spapr_nvram: Device can not be created by the users List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org, David Gibson Cc: qemu-ppc@nongnu.org Trying to add a spapr-nvram device currently aborts QEMU like this: $ ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 -device spapr-nvram qemu-system-ppc64: hw/ppc/spapr_rtas.c:407: spapr_rtas_register: Assertion `!rtas_table[token].name' failed. Aborted (core dumped) This NVRAM device registers RTAS calls during its realize function and thus can only be used once - and that's internally from spapr.c. So let's mark the device with user_creatable = false to avoid that the users can crash their QEMU this way. Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth --- hw/nvram/spapr_nvram.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/nvram/spapr_nvram.c b/hw/nvram/spapr_nvram.c index bc355a4..4a0aec8 100644 --- a/hw/nvram/spapr_nvram.c +++ b/hw/nvram/spapr_nvram.c @@ -264,6 +264,8 @@ static void spapr_nvram_class_init(ObjectClass *klass, void *data) set_bit(DEVICE_CATEGORY_MISC, dc->categories); dc->props = spapr_nvram_properties; dc->vmsd = &vmstate_spapr_nvram; + /* Reason: Internal device only, uses spapr_rtas_register() in realize() */ + dc->user_creatable = false; } static const TypeInfo spapr_nvram_type_info = { -- 1.8.3.1