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From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
To: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: QEMU Developers <qemu-devel@nongnu.org>,
	QEMU Trivial <qemu-trivial@nongnu.org>,
	KONRAD Frederic <fred.konrad@greensocs.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PULL 7/7] hw/misc/mmio_interface: Return after error_setg() to avoid crash
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2017 13:52:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ff54b90d-9912-ce03-31cf-9fd08571eab2@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFEAcA-Jac8wFzQ9vRyKjcEwDKYBdXysNyDP7ERFfXFhVcF56w@mail.gmail.com>

On 14.08.2017 13:45, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 14 August 2017 at 12:07, Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> wrote:
>> From: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
>>
>> QEMU currently abort()s if the user tries to specify the mmio_interface
>> device without parameters:
>>
>> x86_64-softmmu/qemu-system-x86_64 -nographic -device mmio_interface
>> qemu-system-x86_64: /home/thuth/devel/qemu/util/error.c:57: error_setv:
>>  Assertion `*errp == ((void *)0)' failed.
>> Aborted (core dumped)
>>
>> This happens because the realize function is trying to set the errp
>> twice in this case. After setting an error, the realize function
>> should immediately return instead.
> 
> It seems like it should be an error to permit this to be
> created from the command line at all
That's also what thought first ... but the commit message of commit
7cc2298c46a6afa4f4ff7e5cd262809c782d701b says that it "can be
hotplugged/hotunplugged" ? ... that's confusing ...

Frederic, I think some more comments in the header of the file would be
really useful here.

 Thomas

  reply	other threads:[~2017-08-14 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-08-14 11:07 [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/7] Trivial patches for 2017-08-14 Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 1/7] unicore32: abort when entering "x 0" on the monitor Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 2/7] libqtest: Fix typo in comments Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 3/7] qemu-doc: Fix "-net van" typo Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 4/7] qemu-iotests: get rid of _full_imgproto_details() Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 5/7] qemu-iotests: remove commented out variables Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 6/7] qemu-iotests: remove comment about root privileges requirement Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:07 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 7/7] hw/misc/mmio_interface: Return after error_setg() to avoid crash Michael Tokarev
2017-08-14 11:45   ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-14 11:52     ` Thomas Huth [this message]
2017-08-14 11:55       ` Peter Maydell
2017-08-17 12:40         ` KONRAD Frederic
2017-08-14 13:11     ` Igor Mammedov
2017-08-14 12:35 ` [Qemu-devel] [PULL 0/7] Trivial patches for 2017-08-14 Peter Maydell

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