commit 25f8dd96598042a88fdd970d5531584b589b10e4
author Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> Tue Jan 20 10:04:07 2015 +0100
committer Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com> Thu Feb 26 12:42:18 2015 +0100
tree 6f4402af58d8a0316fea1fe09db567f149cf1618
parent d313858dfc2b0b5e6c126f1920863fe43dc9d5b6

qdev: Don't exit when running into bad -global

-global lets you set a nice booby-trap for yourself:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -S -display none -usb -monitor stdio -global usb-mouse.usb_version=l
    QEMU 2.1.94 monitor - type 'help' for more information
    (qemu) device_add usb-mouse
    Parameter 'usb_version' expects an int64 value or range
    $ echo $?
    1

Not nice.  Until commit 3196270 we even abort()ed.

The same error triggers if you manage to screw up a machine type's
compat_props.  To demonstrate, change HW_COMPAT_2_1's entry to

            .driver   = "usb-mouse",\
            .property = "usb_version",\
            .value    = "1", \

Then run

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -usb -M pc-i440fx-2.1 -device usb-mouse
    upstream-qemu: -device usb-mouse: Parameter 'usb_version' expects an int64 value or range
    $ echo $?
    1

One of our creatively cruel error messages.

Since this is actually a coding error, we *should* abort() here.
Replace the error by an assertion failure in this case.

But turn the fatal error into a mere warning when the faulty
GlobalProperty comes from the user.  Looks like this:

    $ qemu-system-x86_64 -nodefaults -S -display none -usb -monitor stdio -global usb-mouse.usb_version=l
    QEMU 2.1.94 monitor - type 'help' for more information
    (qemu) device_add usb-mouse
    Warning: global usb-mouse.usb_version=l ignored (Parameter 'usb_version' expects an int64 value or range)
    (qemu)

This is consistent with how we handle similarly unusable -global in
qdev_prop_check_globals().

You could argue that the error should make device_add fail.  Would be
harder, because we're running within TypeInfo's instance_post_init()
method device_post_init(), which can't fail.

Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

hw/core/qdev-properties.c

diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
index 2e47f70..5a4e4d5 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties.c
@@ -990,8 +990,8 @@
     return ret;
 }
 
-void qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(DeviceState *dev, const char *typename,
-                                    Error **errp)
+static void qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(DeviceState *dev,
+                                const char *typename)
 {
     GlobalProperty *prop;
 
@@ -1004,25 +1004,22 @@
         prop->used = true;
         object_property_parse(OBJECT(dev), prop->value, prop->property, &err);
         if (err != NULL) {
-            error_propagate(errp, err);
+            assert(prop->user_provided);
+            error_report("Warning: global %s.%s=%s ignored (%s)",
+                         prop->driver, prop->property, prop->value,
+                         error_get_pretty(err));
+            error_free(err);
             return;
         }
     }
 }
 
-void qdev_prop_set_globals(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
+void qdev_prop_set_globals(DeviceState *dev)
 {
     ObjectClass *class = object_get_class(OBJECT(dev));
 
     do {
-        Error *err = NULL;
-
-        qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(dev, object_class_get_name(class),
-                                       &err);
-        if (err != NULL) {
-            error_propagate(errp, err);
-            return;
-        }
+        qdev_prop_set_globals_for_type(dev, object_class_get_name(class));
         class = object_class_get_parent(class);
     } while (class);
 }

hw/core/qdev.c

diff --git a/hw/core/qdev.c b/hw/core/qdev.c
index 44c6b93..5f63c5b 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev.c
@@ -1186,13 +1186,7 @@
 
 static void device_post_init(Object *obj)
 {
-    Error *err = NULL;
-    qdev_prop_set_globals(DEVICE(obj), &err);
-    if (err) {
-        qerror_report_err(err);
-        error_free(err);
-        exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
-    }
+    qdev_prop_set_globals(DEVICE(obj));
 }
 
 /* Unlink device from bus and free the structure.  */