On Thu, Sep 23, 2021 at 2:53 AM Damien Hedde <damien.he...@greensocs.com> wrote:
>
> Add an early check to test if the requested sysbus device type
> is allowed by the current machine before creating the device. This
> impacts both -device cli option and device_add qmp command.
>
> Before this patch, the check was done well after the device has
> been created (in a machine init done notifier). We can now report
> the error right away.
>
> Signed-off-by: Damien Hedde <damien.he...@greensocs.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.fran...@wdc.com>
Alistair
> ---
> softmmu/qdev-monitor.c | 11 +++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c b/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
> index 47ccd90be8..f1c9242855 100644
> --- a/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
> +++ b/softmmu/qdev-monitor.c
> @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@
> #include "qemu/cutils.h"
> #include "hw/qdev-properties.h"
> #include "hw/clock.h"
> +#include "hw/boards.h"
>
> /*
> * Aliases were a bad idea from the start. Let's keep them
> @@ -268,6 +269,16 @@ static DeviceClass *qdev_get_device_class(const char
> **driver, Error **errp)
> return NULL;
> }
>
> + if (object_class_dynamic_cast(oc, TYPE_SYS_BUS_DEVICE)) {
> + /* sysbus devices need to be allowed by the machine */
> + MachineClass *mc =
> MACHINE_CLASS(object_get_class(qdev_get_machine()));
> + if (!machine_class_is_dynamic_sysbus_dev_allowed(mc, *driver)) {
> + error_setg(errp, "'%s' is not an allowed pluggable sysbus device
> "
> + " type for the machine", *driver);
> + return NULL;
> + }
> + }
> +
> return dc;
> }
>
> --
> 2.33.0
>
>
