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authorMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2020-06-22 11:42:21 +0200
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2020-06-23 16:07:07 +0200
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qdev: Improve netdev property override error a bit
qdev_prop_set_netdev() fails when the property already has a non-null
value.  Seems to go back to commit 30c367ed44
"qdev-properties-system.c: Allow vlan or netdev for -device, not
both", v1.7.0.  Board code doesn't expect failure, and crashes:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 --nodefaults -nic user -netdev user,id=nic0 -global e1000.netdev=nic0
    Unexpected error in error_set_from_qdev_prop_error() at /work/armbru/qemu/hw/core/qdev-properties.c:1101:
    qemu-system-x86_64: Property 'e1000.netdev' doesn't take value '__org.qemu.nic0
    '
    Aborted (core dumped)

-device and device_add handle the failure:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -netdev user,id=net0 -netdev user,id=net1 -device e1000,netdev=net0,netdev=net1
    qemu-system-x86_64: -device e1000,netdev=net0,netdev=net1: Property 'e1000.netdev' doesn't take value 'net1'
    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -S -display none -monitor stdio -netdev user,id=net0 -netdev user,id=net1 -global e1000.netdev=net0
    QEMU 5.0.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
    (qemu) qemu-system-x86_64: warning: netdev net0 has no peer
    qemu-system-x86_64: warning: netdev net1 has no peer
    device_add e1000,netdev=net1
    Error: Property 'e1000.netdev' doesn't take value 'net1'

Perhaps netdev property override could be made to work.  Perhaps it
should.  I'm not the right guy to figure this out.  What I can do is
improve the error message a bit:

    (qemu) device_add e1000,netdev=net1
    Error: -global e1000.netdev=... conflicts with netdev=net1

Cc: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20200622094227.1271650-11-armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/hw/qdev-properties.h')
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diff --git a/include/hw/qdev-properties.h b/include/hw/qdev-properties.h
index 5252bb6b1a..fc0b2f6b45 100644
--- a/include/hw/qdev-properties.h
+++ b/include/hw/qdev-properties.h
@@ -251,6 +251,8 @@ void qdev_prop_set_macaddr(DeviceState *dev, const char *name,
 void qdev_prop_set_enum(DeviceState *dev, const char *name, int value);
 
 void qdev_prop_register_global(GlobalProperty *prop);
+const GlobalProperty *qdev_find_global_prop(DeviceState *dev,
+                                            const char *name);
 int qdev_prop_check_globals(void);
 void qdev_prop_set_globals(DeviceState *dev);
 void error_set_from_qdev_prop_error(Error **errp, int ret, DeviceState *dev,