Currently, qdev_get_machine() has a slight misuse on container_get(), as
the helper says "get a container" but in reality the goal is to get the
machine object. It is still a "container" but not strictly.
Note that it _may_ get a container (at "/machine") in our current unit test
of test-qdev-global-props.c before all these changes, but it's probably
unexpected and worked by accident.
Switch to an explicit object_resolve_path_component(), with a side benefit
that qdev_get_machine() can happen a lot, and we don't need to split the
string ("/machine") every time. This also paves way for making the helper
container_get() never try to return a non-container at all.
Signed-off-by: Peter Xu <pet...@redhat.com>
---
hw/core/qdev.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/core/qdev.c b/hw/core/qdev.c
index 5f13111b77..b622be15ee 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev.c
@@ -817,7 +817,12 @@ Object *qdev_get_machine(void)
static Object *dev;
if (dev == NULL) {
- dev = container_get(object_get_root(), "/machine");
+ dev = object_resolve_path_component(object_get_root(), "machine");
+ /*
+ * Any call to this function before machine is created is treated
+ * as a programming error as of now.
+ */
+ assert(dev);
}
return dev;
--
2.45.0
