Re: [PULL 29/31] qemu-option: clean up id vs. list->merge_lists

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com> writes:

> Looking at all merge-lists QemuOptsList, here is how they access their
> QemuOpts:
>
> reopen_opts in qemu-io-cmds.c ("qemu-img reopen -o")
> 	qemu_opts_find(&reopen_opts, NULL)
>
> empty_opts in qemu-io.c ("qemu-io open -o")
> 	qemu_opts_find(&empty_opts, NULL)
>
> qemu_rtc_opts ("-rtc")
> 	qemu_find_opts_singleton("rtc")
>
> qemu_machine_opts ("-M")
> 	qemu_find_opts_singleton("machine")
>
> qemu_action_opts ("-name")

Pasto: it's "-action".

> 	qemu_opts_foreach->process_runstate_actions
>
> qemu_boot_opts ("-boot")
> 	in hw/nvram/fw_cfg.c and hw/s390x/ipl.c:
> 	  QTAILQ_FIRST(&qemu_find_opts("bootopts")->head)
> 	in softmmu/vl.c:
> 	  qemu_opts_find(qemu_find_opts("boot-opts"), NULL)
>
> qemu_name_opts ("-name")
> 	qemu_opts_foreach->parse_name
> 	parse_name does not use id
>
> qemu_mem_opts ("-m")
> 	qemu_find_opts_singleton("memory")
>
> qemu_icount_opts ("-icount")
> 	qemu_opts_foreach->do_configure_icount
> 	do_configure_icount->icount_configure
> 	icount_configure does not use id
>
> qemu_smp_opts ("-smp")
> 	qemu_opts_find(qemu_find_opts("smp-opts"), NULL)
>
> qemu_spice_opts ("-spice")
> 	QTAILQ_FIRST(&qemu_spice_opts.head)
>
> i.e. they don't need an id.  Sometimes its presence is ignored
> (e.g. when using qemu_opts_foreach), sometimes all the options
> with the id are skipped, sometimes only the first option on the

Let's insert

    (when using qemu_find_opts_singleton() or qemu_opts_find(list, NULL))

right after skipped, and

> command line is considered.  -boot does two different things

    (when using QTAILQ_FIRST)

right after considered.

> depending on who's looking at the options.
>
> With this patch we just forbid id on merge-lists QemuOptsLists; if the
> command line still works, it has the same semantics as before.
>
> qemu_opts_create's fail_if_exists parameter is now unnecessary:
>
> - it is unused if id is NULL
>
> - opts_parse only passes false if reached from qemu_opts_set_defaults,
> in which case this patch enforces that id must be NULL
>
> - other callers that can pass a non-NULL id always set it to true
>
> Assert that it is true in the only case where "fail_if_exists" matters,
> i.e. "id && !lists->merge_lists".  This means that if an id is present,
> duplicates are always forbidden, which was already the status quo.
>
> Discounting the case that aborts as it's not user-controlled (it's
> "just" a matter of inspecting qemu_opts_create callers), the paths
> through qemu_opts_create can be summarized as:
>
> - merge_lists = true: singleton opts with NULL id; non-NULL id fails
>
> - merge_lists = false: always return new opts; non-NULL id fails if dup
>
> Reviewed-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>