On 07/02/2017 21:01, Marc-André Lureau wrote: > Hi > > ----- Original Message ----- >> >> >> On 02/02/2017 15:51, Marc-André Lureau wrote: >>> This should eventually free all objects that are only referenced by >>> their parents. >>> >>> Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> >>> --- >>> vl.c | 1 + >>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) >>> >>> diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c >>> index 0b72b12878..945df1d17f 100644 >>> --- a/vl.c >>> +++ b/vl.c >>> @@ -4640,6 +4640,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) >>> audio_cleanup(); >>> monitor_cleanup(); >>> qemu_chr_cleanup(); >>> + object_unref(object_get_root()); >> >> This seems dangerous. I'm pretty sure that a lot of non-hot-unpluggable >> devices would leak or crash. > > make check is ok. Any suggestion what else to check?
Not sure... I would have to try with some logging to see what this does. But it doesn't seem safe, most devices are really not meant to be hot-removed. > This patch was added so that /chardevs container is cleaned up (with > the following patches). Perhaps I could be more conservative and only > unref (oops unparent) /chardevs. Yeah, that would work. Paolo