Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/6] hw/arm/virt: Remove null-check in virt_build_smbios()

[Laszlo Ersek]

On 12/07/18 18:03, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
> Since af1f60a4022, the fw_cfg field is always created in machvirt_init().
> There is no need to null check it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
> ---
>  hw/arm/virt.c | 4 ----
>  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/arm/virt.c b/hw/arm/virt.c
> index f69e7eb399..36303ed59c 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/virt.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/virt.c
> @@ -1279,10 +1279,6 @@ static void virt_build_smbios(VirtMachineState *vms)
>      size_t smbios_tables_len, smbios_anchor_len;
>      const char *product = "QEMU Virtual Machine";
>  
> -    if (!vms->fw_cfg) {
> -        return;
> -    }
> -
>      if (kvm_enabled()) {
>          product = "KVM Virtual Machine";
>      }
> 

This patch looks correct to me; however, the fact that fw_cfg is always
present on the virt board does not seem related to commit af1f60a4022
af1f60a40226 ("hw/arm/virt: remove VirtGuestInfo", 2017-01-09). Said
commit only flattened the contents of VirtGuestInfo into
VirtMachineState; the conditions under which fw_cfg would be created
were not changed.

As far as I can see (from a number of git-blame / git-show commands),
fw_cfg was added unconditionally to the virt board in commit
578f3c7b0835 ("arm: add fw_cfg to "virt" board", 2014-12-22). And the
check that you are now (correctly) removing has always been superfluous
-- it was superfluous already when it was first added in commit
c30e15658b1b ("smbios: implement smbios support for mach-virt", 2015-09-07).

As far as I can tell, anyway.

If you agree, I suggest mentioning commit c30e15658b1b in the commit
message, rather than commit af1f60a4022.

With such an update:

Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <address@hidden>

Thanks
Laszlo