Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] net: Fix VM start with '-net none'

[Aurelien Jarno]

On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 01:30:39PM +0530, Amit Shah wrote:
> Commit 50e32ea8f31035877decc10f1075aa0e619e09cb changed the behaviour
> for the return type of net_client_init() when a nic type with no init
> method was specified. 'none' is one such nic type. Instead of returning
> 0, which gets interpreted as an index into the nd_table[] array, we
> switched to returning -1, which signifies an error as well.
> 
> That broke VM start with '-net none'. Testing was only done with the
> monitor command 'pci_add', which doesn't fail.
> 
> The correct fix would still be to return 0+ values from
> net_client_init() only when the return value can be used as an index to
> refer to an entry in nd_table[]. With the current code, callers can
> erroneously poke into nd_table[0] when -net nic is used, which can lead
> to badness.
> 
> However, this commit just returns to the previous behaviour before the
> offending commit.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <address@hidden>
> ---
>  net.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

Thanks, applied.

> diff --git a/net.c b/net.c
> index 4cb93ed..b681233 100644
> --- a/net.c
> +++ b/net.c
> @@ -1119,7 +1119,7 @@ int net_client_init(Monitor *mon, QemuOpts *opts, int 
> is_netdev)
>                  vlan = qemu_find_vlan(qemu_opt_get_number(opts, "vlan", 0), 
> 1);
>              }
>  
> -            ret = -1;
> +            ret = 0;
>              if (net_client_types[i].init) {
>                  ret = net_client_types[i].init(opts, mon, name, vlan);
>                  if (ret < 0) {
> -- 
> 1.7.0.1
> 
> 
> 

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