On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 11:58:01AM +0530, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> Hotplugging existing char chardev with qmp, dereferences(removes)
> existing chardev. This patch avoids adding a chardev if a chardev
> with same id exists.
>
> RH BZ 1660831:
>
> # (host) ls -lt /tmp/helloworld*
> srwxr-xr-x. /tmp/helloworld1
> srwxr-xr-x. /tmp/helloworld2
>
> Before this patch:
>
> hotplug existed chardev(channel1) in qmp:
> {"execute":"chardev-add","arguments":{"id":"charchannel1","backend":{"type":"socket",
> "data":{"addr":{"type":"unix", "data": {"path": "/tmp/helloworld1"}}}}}}
>
> {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "attempt to add duplicate
> property 'charchannel1' to object (type 'container')"}}
>
> # ls -lt /tmp/helloworld*
> srwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 0 Dec 19 16:39 /tmp/helloworld2
>
> After this patch:
>
> {"execute":"chardev-add","arguments":{"id":"charchannel1","backend":{"type":"socket",
> "data":{"addr":{"type":"unix", "data": {"path": "/tmp/helloworld1"}}}}}}
> {"error": {"class": "GenericError", "desc": "Chardev 'charchannel1' already
> exists"}}
>
> # ls -lt /tmp/helloworld*
> srwxr-xr-x. 1 /tmp/helloworld1
> srwxr-xr-x. 1 /tmp/helloworld2
>
> Reported-by: Xiaohui Li <xiao...@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Pankaj Gupta <pagu...@redhat.com>
> ---
>
> v1->v2
> Correct error message - Eric
>
> chardev/char.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com>
