Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 01/10] qom: add helpers for UserCreatable object types

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

On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 06:43:43AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 04/27/2016 03:58 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 11:26:23AM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> >> This commit regresses error message quality from
> >>
> >>     $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -object secret,id=sec0,data=letmein,format=raw,foo=bar
> >>     qemu-system-x86_64: -object secret,id=sec0,data=letmein,format=raw,foo=bar: Property '.foo' not found
> >>
> >> to just
> >>
> >>     qemu-system-x86_64: Property '.foo' not found
> > 
> > I'm not seeing that behaviour myself in current git master, nor
> > immediately before or after 90998d58964cd17f8b0b03800b0a4508f8b543da
> > is applied. I always just get
> > 
> >  $ ./x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -display none -object secret,id=sec0,data=letmein,format=raw,foo=bar
> >  qemu-system-x86_64: -object secret,id=sec0,data=letmein,format=raw,foo=bar: Property '.foo' not found
> > 
> > So it all appears to be working correctly. How reliably reproducable
> > is it for you ?  I'm testing on Fedora 23 x86_64 host and can't
> > see the failure despite many invokations.
> 
> I'm reproducing it on my F23 machine, where 90998d58 indeed flips the
> behavior I'm seeing. Maybe it's a factor of which malloc engine is in
> use, or level of compiler optimization?
> 
> My config.status states:
> exec '/home/eblake/qemu/configure' '--enable-kvm' '--enable-system'
> '--disable-user' '--target-list=x86_64-softmmu,ppc64-softmmu'
> '--enable-debug'

For the record, the --enable-debug flag was the key to making this
bug reproducable


Regards,
Daniel
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