QOM reference counting bugs are often hard to detect, but there's one kind of bug that's easier: if we are freeing an object but is still attached to a parent, it means the reference count is wrong (because the parent always hold a reference to their children).
Add an assertion to make sure we detect those cases. Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabk...@redhat.com> --- qom/object.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c index f2ae6e6b2a..5cfed6d7c6 100644 --- a/qom/object.c +++ b/qom/object.c @@ -685,6 +685,7 @@ static void object_finalize(void *data) object_deinit(obj, ti); g_assert(obj->ref == 0); + g_assert(obj->parent == NULL); if (obj->free) { obj->free(obj); } -- 2.28.0