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From: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:40:14 +0100
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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3 6/7] qdev: Protect
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To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Graf <agraf@suse.de>, Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>, Peter Crosthwaite <crosthwaite.peter@gmail.com>, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>, qemu-stable <qemu-stable@nongnu.org>, Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>, "qemu-ppc@nongnu.org" <qemu-ppc@nongnu.org>, Antony Pavlov <antonynpavlov@gmail.com>, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>, Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>, Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>, Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@xilinx.com>, =?UTF-8?Q?Andreas_F=C3=A4rber?= <afaerber@suse.de>, Li Guang <lig.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com>, Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>

On 28 September 2015 at 20:36, Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> wrote:
> 1. I made device-introspection-test run "info qom-tree", which has a
>    lovely propensity to crash when a crappy device left dangling pointer
>    behind.  This led me to "cgthree", "cuda", "integrator_debug",
>    "macio-oldworld", "macio-newworld", "pxa2xx-fir", "SUNW,tcx".  They
>    all create memory regions without owner in their instance_init()
>    method.

I guess these are all just "oops, we forgot to pass the Object* in
instead of NULL" bugs rather than more difficult fixes.

-- PMM