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Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 09:38:43 +0100
From: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Network isn't clean when qemu exits
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To: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Cc: Qemu Devel Mail List <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, mst@redhat.com

On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 01:57:04PM +0800, Amos Kong wrote:
> In vl.c:main(), tap device would be created when net_init_clients() is called.
> "device" option is parsed after calling net_init_clients() by:
> # "qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("device"), device_init_func, NULL, 1)
> 
> Qemu will exit if fails to parse device parameters without calling net_cleanup().
> I touch a problem, the tap device which is created by qemu-ifup script
> could not be removed by qemu-ifdown script.
> 
> I did a quick fix, the tap device should be removed.
> 
> But there are many "exit(1)" after calling net_init_clients() in vl.c,
> it's ugly to call net_cleanup() before each exit. Not sure if we have
> other exit(1) in other sub-functions, which is also called after calling
> net_init_clients().
> 
> Any comments?
> 
> =====
> @@ -3882,8 +3889,11 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
>      }
> 
>      /* init generic devices */
> -    if (qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("device"), device_init_func,
>      NULL, 1) != 0)
> +    if (qemu_opts_foreach(qemu_find_opts("device"), device_init_func,
> +                          NULL, 1) != 0) {
> +        net_cleanup();
>          exit(1);
> +    }

How about qemu_add_exit_notifier() or atexit(3)?  Several other places
in QEMU use this to clean up.

Then you can also remove net_cleanup() from the end of vl.c:main() since
it gets called implicitly.

Stefan