On Thu, Apr 13, 2023 at 7:07 PM Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
wrote:
> If the -qtest command line argument is passed a string that says
> "use this chardev for I/O", then it will assert:
>
> $ ./build/clang/qemu-system-i386 -chardev file,path=/dev/null,id=myid
> -qtest chardev:myid
> Unexpected error in qtest_set_chardev() at ../../softmmu/qtest.c:1011:
> qemu-system-i386: Cannot find character device 'qtest'
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> This is because in qtest_server_init() we assume that when we create
> the chardev with qemu_chr_new() it will always have the name "qtest".
> This is true if qemu_chr_new() had to create a new chardev, but not
> true if one already existed and is being referred to with
> "chardev:myid".
>
> Use the name of the chardev we get back from qemu_chr_new() as the
> string to set the qtest 'chardev' property to, instead of hardcoding
> it to "qtest".
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
>
Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>
> ---
> softmmu/qtest.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/softmmu/qtest.c b/softmmu/qtest.c
> index 34bd2a33a76..26852996b5b 100644
> --- a/softmmu/qtest.c
> +++ b/softmmu/qtest.c
> @@ -867,7 +867,7 @@ void qtest_server_init(const char *qtest_chrdev, const
> char *qtest_log, Error **
> }
>
> qtest = object_new(TYPE_QTEST);
> - object_property_set_str(qtest, "chardev", "qtest", &error_abort);
> + object_property_set_str(qtest, "chardev", chr->label, &error_abort);
> if (qtest_log) {
> object_property_set_str(qtest, "log", qtest_log, &error_abort);
> }
> --
> 2.34.1
>
>
