Re: [Qemu-arm] [PATCH] hw/arm/bcm283x: Fix crash with device_add bcm2837 on unsupported machines

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 07:20:42PM +0200, Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> On 09/07/2018 23:03, Thomas Huth wrote:
> > 
> > The problem is that qdev_set_parent_bus() from instance_init adds a link
> > to the child devices which is not valid anymore after the device init
> > failed. Thus the qdev_set_parent_bus() must rather be done in the realize
> > function instead.
> 
> The theoretical behavior should be:

It's not clear below where you expect
  qdev_set_parent_bus(..., sysbus_get_default())
to be called (if it should be called at all).

I don't know where it should be called, but I'm absolutely sure
instance_init is not the right place.

> 
> - realize fails
> 
> - object_unparent is called on the device that failed to realize (see
> qdev_device_add).  object_unparent calls device_unparent
> 
> - after device_unparent finishes, the last reference to the device has
> been dropped and the device is freed
> 
> - object finalization releases all properties
> 
> - this includes child properties, so for each child device
> object_unparent is called
> 
> - again device_unparent is called (for the child) and this removes the
> child from the bus.
> 
> Paolo

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Eduardo