Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v6 00/25] Add qemu_getrandom and ARMv8.5-RNG etc

[Richard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>]

On 5/14/19 8:23 AM, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote:
> On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 05:15:31PM +0200, Markus Armbruster wrote:
>> "make check-unit" fails for me:
>>
>>   TEST    check-unit: tests/test-crypto-tlscredsx509
>> Unexpected error in object_new_with_propv() at /work/armbru/qemu/qom/object.c:674:
>> invalid object type: tls-creds-x509
>>
>> and
>>
>>   TEST    check-unit: tests/test-io-channel-tls
>> Unexpected error in object_new_with_propv() at /work/armbru/qemu/qom/object.c:674:
>> invalid object type: tls-creds-x509
>>
>> I haven't looked further.
> 
> I have a nasty feeling it is caused by
> 
>   Subject: [PATCH v6 02/25] crypto: Merge crypto-obj-y into libqemuutil.a
> 
> The QOM objects are not directly used by most of the code. We rely on
> the constructor registering the QOM object and then we request an
> instance of it via the type name. So there's no direct function calls
> from any code into the crypto object impls.
> 
> When we put the crypto objects into libqemuutil.a the linker is not
> intelligent enough to see the constructor and so thinks all these
> QOM object impls are unused and discards them when linking the final
> binary.

Yes, that would do it.  We would need something in the test that forces the
objects into the link.  Without having yet looked at the test cases, any ideas?


r~