From: Gonglei <arei.gong...@huawei.com> virtio-$device-{pci, s390, ccw} all duplicate the qdev properties of their virtio child. This approach does not work well with string or pointer properties since we must be careful about leaking or double-freeing them.
Use the QOM alias property to forward property accesses to the VirtIORNG child. This way no duplication is necessary. For their child, object_initialize() leaves the object with a refcount of 1. object_property_add_child() adds its own reference which is dropped again when the property is deleted. The upshot of this is that we always have a refcount >= 1. Upon hot unplug the virtio-$device child is not finalized! Drop our reference after the child property has been added to the parent. The v1 as below: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2014-09/msg01208.html Changes since v1: 1. using alias properties avoid to double-free property.(Stefan) 2. add handling all other virtio-devices had the same probleam. 3. same handling for CCW and s390-virito. Acknowledgements: I copied Stefan's commit message about virtio-blk which summarized reasons very well, I cannot agree more with him. Holp Stefan do not mind, thank you so much! Gonglei (9): virtio-net: use aliases instead of duplicate qdev properties virtio: fix virtio-net child refcount in transports virtio/vhost scsi: use aliases instead of duplicate qdev properties virtio/vhost-scsi: fix virtio-scsi/vhost-scsi child refcount in transports virtio-serial: use aliases instead of duplicate qdev properties virtio-serial: fix virtio-serial child refcount in transports virtio-rng: use aliases instead of duplicate qdev properties virtio-rng: fix virtio-rng child refcount in transports virtio-balloon: fix virtio-balloon child refcount in transports hw/s390x/s390-virtio-bus.c | 16 ++++++++++------ hw/s390x/virtio-ccw.c | 18 +++++++++++------- hw/virtio/virtio-pci.c | 18 +++++++++++------- 3 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-) -- 1.7.12.4