tree 5b7cc45f1f864939e53307de7f8095701a653fd9
parent 05f2320d40cfea74fad4bfc9ec5b645a3964ea05
author Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> 1700221497 +0100
committer Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com> 1703064563 +0100

qom/object: Limit type names to alphanumerical and some few special characters

QOM names currently don't have any enforced naming rules. This
can be problematic, e.g. when they are used on the command line
for the "-device" option (where the comma is used to separate
properties). To avoid that such problematic type names come in
again, let's restrict the set of acceptable characters during the
type registration.

Ideally, we'd apply here the same rules as for QAPI, i.e. all type
names should begin with a letter, and contain only ASCII letters,
digits, hyphen, and underscore. However, we already have so many
pre-existing types like:

    486-x86_64-cpu
    cfi.pflash01
    power5+_v2.1-spapr-cpu-core
    virt-2.6-machine
    pc-i440fx-3.0-machine

... so that we have to allow "." and "+" for now, too. While the
dot is used in a lot of places, the "+" can fortunately be limited
to two classes of legacy names ("power" and "Sun-UltraSparc" CPUs).

We also cannot enforce the rule that names must start with a letter
yet, since there are lot of types that start with a digit. Still,
at least limiting the first characters to the alphanumerical range
should be way better than nothing.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20231117114457.177308-6-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>