On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 6:59 PM, Andreas Färber <afaer...@suse.de> wrote: > Am 10.09.2013 18:49, schrieb Paolo Bonzini: >> Il 10/09/2013 18:21, Stefan Hajnoczi ha scritto: >>> qdev_device_add() leaks the created qdev upon failure. I suspect this >>> problem crept in because qdev_free() unparents the qdev but does not >>> drop a reference - confusing name. >> >> Right, the name a leftover from pre-refcounting days. >> >> BTW, not dropping a reference is the right thing to do because the >> reference is dropped much earlier, typically as soon as qdev_device_add >> returns. The QOM object tree then will still provide means to access >> devices, until they are unparented. >> >> In this case, however, qdev_device_add's caller does not have a >> reference to free; doing that is the responsibility of qdev_device_add, >> since it returns NULL. >> >>> Also drop trailing whitespace after curly bracket. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> >>> --- >>> qdev-monitor.c | 4 +++- >>> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/qdev-monitor.c b/qdev-monitor.c >>> index 410cdcb..5657cdc 100644 >>> --- a/qdev-monitor.c >>> +++ b/qdev-monitor.c >>> @@ -512,6 +512,7 @@ DeviceState *qdev_device_add(QemuOpts *opts) >>> } >>> if (qemu_opt_foreach(opts, set_property, qdev, 1) != 0) { >>> qdev_free(qdev); >>> + object_unref(OBJECT(qdev)); >>> return NULL; >>> } >>> if (qdev->id) { > > Given that qdev_free() doesn't do what one might expect, I would suggest > to s/qdev_free/object_unparent/g above.
I'll send a follow-up patch to do this across the tree. >>> @@ -523,8 +524,9 @@ DeviceState *qdev_device_add(QemuOpts *opts) >>> object_property_add_child(qdev_get_peripheral_anon(), name, >>> OBJECT(qdev), NULL); >>> g_free(name); >>> - } >>> + } >>> if (qdev_init(qdev) < 0) { >>> + object_unref(OBJECT(qdev)); >>> qerror_report(QERR_DEVICE_INIT_FAILED, driver); >>> return NULL; >>> } >>> >> >> Reviewed-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> > > I would like to take this through qom-next tree since I have pending > variable cleanups there ("qdev" being touched here). Not sure how to > handle that wrt block changes in this series? It would be simplest to take the whole series. Splitting it is hard because the qdev device_add test case requires the blockdev.c fix (otherwise the drive ID is held due to the leaked options list). Or you can cherry-pick just this patch and the rest of the series can go via the block tree? Stefan