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From: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: peter.maydell@linaro.org, pbonzini@redhat.com, thuth@redhat.com,
	marcandre.lureau@redhat.com, michael.roth@amd.com
Subject: [PATCH] qom: Fix default values in help
Date: Wed, 24 Mar 2021 09:41:30 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210324084130.3986072-1-armbru@redhat.com> (raw)

Output of default values in device help is broken:

    $ ./qemu-system-x86_64 -S -display none -monitor stdio
    QEMU 5.2.50 monitor - type 'help' for more information
    (qemu) device_add pvpanic,help
    pvpanic options:
      events=<uint8>         -  (default: (null))
      ioport=<uint16>        -  (default: (null))
      pvpanic[0]=<child<qemu:memory-region>>

The "(null)" is glibc printing a null pointer.  Other systems crash
instead.  Having a help request crash a running VM can really spoil
your day.

Root cause is a botched replacement of qstring_free() by
g_string_free(): to get the string back, we need to pass true to the
former, but false to the latter.  Fix the argument.

Fixes: eab3a4678b07267c39e7290a6e9e7690b1d2a521
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
---
 qom/object_interfaces.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/qom/object_interfaces.c b/qom/object_interfaces.c
index c3324b0f86..bd8a947a63 100644
--- a/qom/object_interfaces.c
+++ b/qom/object_interfaces.c
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@ char *object_property_help(const char *name, const char *type,
     }
     if (defval) {
         g_autofree char *def_json = g_string_free(qobject_to_json(defval),
-                                                  true);
+                                                  false);
         g_string_append_printf(str, " (default: %s)", def_json);
     }
 
-- 
2.26.3



             reply	other threads:[~2021-03-24  8:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-24  8:41 Markus Armbruster [this message]
2021-03-24  8:48 ` [PATCH] qom: Fix default values in help Marc-André Lureau
2021-03-24  9:00 ` Thomas Huth

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