On Fri, 6 Mar 2020 11:33:07 +0100
Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 3/3/20 10:12 AM, Igor Mammedov wrote:
> > SOC object returned by object_new() is leaked in current code.
> > Set SOC parent explicitly to board and then unref to SOC object
> > to make sure that refererence returned by object_new() is taken
> > care of.
> >
> > The SOC object will be kept alive by its parent (machine) and
> > will be automatically freed when MachineState is destroyed.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Igor Mammedov <imamm...@redhat.com>
> > Reported-by: Andrew Jones <drjo...@redhat.com>
> > ---
> > hw/arm/cubieboard.c | 7 ++++++-
> > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/hw/arm/cubieboard.c b/hw/arm/cubieboard.c
> > index 089f9a30c1..12f8ac798d 100644
> > --- a/hw/arm/cubieboard.c
> > +++ b/hw/arm/cubieboard.c
> > @@ -30,9 +30,14 @@ static struct arm_boot_info cubieboard_binfo = {
> >
> > static void cubieboard_init(MachineState *machine)
> > {
> > - AwA10State *a10 = AW_A10(object_new(TYPE_AW_A10));
> > + AwA10State *a10;
> > Error *err = NULL;
> >
>
> What about using object_new_with_props similarly to commit e4c81e3a451f?
I prefer explicit object_property_add_child() and would use
above only if there are list of properties to feed to it.
> a10 = AW_A10(object_new_with_props(TYPE_AW_A10, OBJECT(s), "soc",
> &err, NULL));
> if (err != NULL) {
> error_propagate(errp, err);
> return;
> }
>
> > + a10 = AW_A10(object_new(TYPE_AW_A10));
> > + object_property_add_child(OBJECT(machine), "soc", OBJECT(a10),
> > + &error_abort);
> > + object_unref(OBJECT(a10));
> > +
> > object_property_set_int(OBJECT(&a10->emac), 1, "phy-addr", &err);
> > if (err != NULL) {
> > error_reportf_err(err, "Couldn't set phy address: ");
> >
>
