qdev_device_add() currently uses object_new() which will abort if there memory allocation for device instance fails. While it's fine it startup, it is not desirable diring hotplug.
Try to allocate memory for object first and fail safely if allocation fails. Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com> --- It's just a step in making hotplug safer wrt object allocation. To make it more safer, hotplugged class constructor shouldn't allocate memory either, but that should be addressed on per device basis providing we fix QOM internals to avoid dynamic allocations. --- qdev-monitor.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/qdev-monitor.c b/qdev-monitor.c index a35098f..a70262e 100644 --- a/qdev-monitor.c +++ b/qdev-monitor.c @@ -514,6 +514,7 @@ DeviceState *qdev_device_add(QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp) DeviceClass *dc; const char *driver, *path, *id; DeviceState *dev; + size_t obj_size; BusState *bus = NULL; Error *err = NULL; @@ -555,7 +556,13 @@ DeviceState *qdev_device_add(QemuOpts *opts, Error **errp) } /* create device */ - dev = DEVICE(object_new(driver)); + obj_size = object_class_get_instance_size(OBJECT_CLASS(dc)); + dev = g_try_malloc0(obj_size); + if (dev == NULL) { + error_setg(errp, "Not enough memory for Device '%s'", driver); + return NULL; + } + object_initialize(dev, obj_size, driver); if (bus) { qdev_set_parent_bus(dev, bus); -- 1.8.3.1