A chardev socket created with the 'fd=' argument is not going to handle reconnection properly by recycling the same fd (or not in a supported way). Let's forbid this case.
Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> --- chardev/char-socket.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/chardev/char-socket.c b/chardev/char-socket.c index 64e24cb2ab..e4137ccd3c 100644 --- a/chardev/char-socket.c +++ b/chardev/char-socket.c @@ -997,6 +997,10 @@ static void qmp_chardev_open_socket(Chardev *chr, s->addr = addr = socket_address_flatten(sock->addr); + if (sock->has_reconnect && addr->type == SOCKET_ADDRESS_TYPE_FD) { + error_setg(errp, "'reconnect' option is incompatible with 'fd'"); + goto error; + } qemu_chr_set_feature(chr, QEMU_CHAR_FEATURE_RECONNECTABLE); /* TODO SOCKET_ADDRESS_FD where fd has AF_UNIX */ if (addr->type == SOCKET_ADDRESS_TYPE_UNIX) { -- 2.19.1.708.g4ede3d42df