Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-sockets: fix conversion of ipv4/ipv6 JSON to QemuOpts

["Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 03:35:41PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> The QemuOpts-based code treats "option not set" and "option set
> to false" the same way for the ipv4 and ipv6 options, because it
> is meant to handle only the ",ipv4" and ",ipv6" substrings in
> hand-crafted option parsers.
> 
> When converting InetSocketAddress to QemuOpts, however, it is
> necessary to handle all three cases (not set, set to true, set
> to false).  Currently we are not handling all cases correctly.
> The rules are:
> 
> * if none or both options are absent, leave things as is
> 
> * if the single present option is Y, the other should be N.
> This can be implemented by leaving things as is, or by setting
> the other option to N as done in this patch.
> 
> * if the single present option is N, the other should be Y.
> This is handled by the "else if" branch of this patch.
> 
> This ensures that the ipv4 option has an effect on Windows,
> where creating the socket with PF_UNSPEC makes an ipv6
> socket.  With this patch, ",ipv4" will result in a PF_INET
> socket instead.
> 
> Reported-by: Sair, Umair <Umair_Sair@mentor.com>
> Tested-by: Sair, Umair <Umair_Sair@mentor.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
> ---
>  util/qemu-sockets.c | 9 ++++++---
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berrange@redhat.com>

I look forward to formally submitting the remainder of my patches to kill
off QemuOpts from this qemu-sockets.c code :-)

Regards,
Daniel
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