Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/core/qdev: Do not allow hot-plugging without hotplug controller

[Eduardo Habkost]

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 11:22:42AM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
> qdev_unplug() bails out with an assertion if the user tries to device_del
> a hot-plugged device that does not have a hotplug controller. Unfortunately,
> our devices are all marked with hotpluggable = true by default (see the
> device_class_init() function in qdev.c), so it currently can happen that
> the user runs into this situation and QEMU gets terminated unexpectedly:
> 
> $ qemu-system-aarch64 -M virt -nographic -nodefaults -monitor stdio -S
> QEMU 2.10.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> (qemu) device_add aux-to-i2c-bridge,id=x
> (qemu) device_del x
> **
> ERROR:qdev-monitor.c:872:qdev_unplug: assertion failed: (hotplug_ctrl)
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> Hotplugging devices without a hotplug controller does not make much sense,
> so we should disallow this during the device_add process already!
> 
> Suggested-by: Paolo Bonzini <address@hidden>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <address@hidden>

I'm queueing this on machine-next.  We still want it even if we
apply the patch that changes TYPE_DEVICE to hotpluggable=false by
default, right?

-- 
Eduardo