Hello Philippe!

On 16/08/2021 10:01, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé wrote:
On 8/16/21 2:36 PM, Jose R. Ziviani wrote:
If users try to add an isa-vga device that was already registered,
still in command line, qemu will crash:

$ qemu-system-mips64el -M pica61 -device isa-vga
RAMBlock "vga.vram" already registered, abort!
Aborted (core dumped)

That particular board registers the device automaticaly, so it's
not obvious that a VGA device already exists. This patch changes
this behavior by displaying a message and exiting without crashing.

Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/44
Signed-off-by: Jose R. Ziviani <jzivi...@suse.de>
---
  hw/display/vga-isa.c | 10 ++++++++++
  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

diff --git a/hw/display/vga-isa.c b/hw/display/vga-isa.c
index 90851e730b..1fba33b22b 100644
--- a/hw/display/vga-isa.c
+++ b/hw/display/vga-isa.c
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
  #include "hw/loader.h"
  #include "hw/qdev-properties.h"
  #include "qom/object.h"
+#include "qapi/error.h"
#define TYPE_ISA_VGA "isa-vga"
  OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE(ISAVGAState, ISA_VGA)
@@ -61,6 +62,15 @@ static void vga_isa_realizefn(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
      MemoryRegion *vga_io_memory;
      const MemoryRegionPortio *vga_ports, *vbe_ports;
+ /*
+     * make sure this device is not being added twice, if so
+     * exit without crashing qemu
+     */
+    if (qemu_ram_block_by_name("vga.vram")) {
+        error_setg(errp, "vga.vram is already registered");
Maybe "'isa-vga' device already registered" is easier to understand?
(vga.vram is about the device model internal).

Much better message, sending a v3 with this improvement.

Thank you!



Otherwise:
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>

+        return;
+    }
+
      s->global_vmstate = true;
      vga_common_init(s, OBJECT(dev));
      s->legacy_address_space = isa_address_space(isadev);


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