Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 42/42] WIP: add TPM CRB device

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Tue, Oct 10, 2017 at 02:28:19PM -0400, Stefan Berger wrote:
> On 10/09/2017 06:56 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> > +
> > +static void tpm_crb_realizefn(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
> > +{
> > +    CRBState *s = CRB(dev);
> > +    SysBusDevice *sbd = SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev);
> > +
> > +    if (!tpm_find()) {
> > +        error_setg(errp, "at most one TPM device is permitted");
> 
> 
> Shouldn't that be the case if tpm_find() != NULL ?

It's tricky: due to the way it's implemented (using
object_resolve_path_type()) tpm_find() will be able to find @dev
itself, because it is already attached to the device tree, but it
will return NULL if there are multiple TPM devices.

You can see the same pattern being used at
find_vmgenid_dev()/vmgenid_realize() and
fw_cfg_find()/fw_cfg_common_realize().  The difference is that
find_vmgenid_dev() and fw_cfg_find() are explicitly documented
with a "returns NULL unless there is exactly one device" comment,
while tpm_find() is not.

-- 
Eduardo