[Qemu-arm] [PATCH for-4.1? 0/2] Typecheck VMSTATE VARRAY macros and fix bug found

[Peter Maydell]

Damien's patch to fix a pl330 vmstate mixup between
VMSTATE_STRUCT_VARRAY_UINT32 and VMSTATE_STRUCT_VARRAY_POINTER_UINT32
led me to think about whether we could catch that particular
mixup. It turns out that we can, by adding a type check that the
field given to the macro is really an array of the correct type.

This only found one other instance of the same bug, in the
stellaris_input device; patch 1 fixes that and then patch 2
is the improved type checking.

We should probably also go through and look at the other
VMSTATE macros that use a raw 'offsetof' rather than one
of the vmstate_offset_foo type-checking macros, and see if
we can add type checks there. (Documentation of the macros
would be nice too...)

I've marked this as for-4.1? because the stellaris bugfix
definitely seems worth including in the release but I'm less
certain about whether to put in the typecheck -- David/Juan can
decide that.

thanks
-- PMM

Based-on: <address@hidden>
("pl330: fix vmstate description" -- otherwise the new typecheck
will cause a compile failure due to presence of the bug that
patch fixes)

Peter Maydell (2):
  stellaris_input: Fix vmstate description of buttons field
  vmstate.h: Type check VMSTATE_STRUCT_VARRAY macros

 include/migration/vmstate.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++------
 hw/input/stellaris_input.c  | 10 ++++++----
 2 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

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