Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm/bcm283x: Fix crash with device_add bcm2837 on unsupported machines

[Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:03:00PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> When trying to "device_add bcm2837" on a machine that is not suitable for
> this device, you can quickly crash QEMU afterwards, e.g. with "info qtree":
> 
> echo "{'execute':'qmp_capabilities'} {'execute':'device_add', " \
>  "'arguments':{'driver':'bcm2837'}} {'execute': 'human-monitor-command', " \
>  "'arguments': {'command-line': 'info qtree'}}" | \
>  aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M integratorcp,accel=qtest -S -qmp stdio

Interesting, how did you find this bug?

Running "info qtree" and other queries on device-crash-test
sounds like a good idea.  I will add it to my TODO list.

> 
> {"QMP": {"version": {"qemu": {"micro": 50, "minor": 12, "major": 2},
>  "package": "build-all"}, "capabilities": []}}
> {"return": {}}
> {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Device 'bcm2837' can not be
>  hotplugged on this machine"}}
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)
> 
> The problem is that qdev_set_parent_bus() from instance_init adds a link
> to the child devices which is not valid anymore after the device init
> failed. Thus the qdev_set_parent_bus() must rather be done in the realize
> function instead.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
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Eduardo