[Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 10/14] qemu-char: add qemu_chr_free()

[marcandre . lureau]

From: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>

If a chardev is allowed to be created outside of QMP, then it must be
also possible to free it. This is useful for ivshmem that creates
chardev anonymously and must be able to free them.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <address@hidden>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
---
 include/sysemu/char.h | 10 +++++++++-
 qemu-char.c           |  9 +++++++--
 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/sysemu/char.h b/include/sysemu/char.h
index 832b7fe..5fd0a09 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/char.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/char.h
@@ -128,11 +128,19 @@ CharDriverState *qemu_chr_new(const char *label, const 
char *filename,
 /**
  * @qemu_chr_delete:
  *
- * Destroy a character backend.
+ * Destroy a character backend and remove it from the list of
+ * identified character backends.
  */
 void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr);
 
 /**
+ * @qemu_chr_free:
+ *
+ * Destroy a character backend.
+ */
+void qemu_chr_free(CharDriverState *chr);
+
+/**
  * @qemu_chr_fe_set_echo:
  *
  * Ask the backend to override its normal echo setting.  This only really
diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
index c37a9f9..a6b9bd2 100644
--- a/qemu-char.c
+++ b/qemu-char.c
@@ -3849,9 +3849,8 @@ void qemu_chr_fe_release(CharDriverState *s)
     s->avail_connections++;
 }
 
-void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr)
+void qemu_chr_free(CharDriverState *chr)
 {
-    QTAILQ_REMOVE(&chardevs, chr, next);
     if (chr->chr_close) {
         chr->chr_close(chr);
     }
@@ -3861,6 +3860,12 @@ void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr)
     g_free(chr);
 }
 
+void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr)
+{
+    QTAILQ_REMOVE(&chardevs, chr, next);
+    qemu_chr_free(chr);
+}
+
 ChardevInfoList *qmp_query_chardev(Error **errp)
 {
     ChardevInfoList *chr_list = NULL;
-- 
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