Re: [PATCH v3] vga: don't abort when adding a duplicate isa-vga device

[Thomas Huth]

On 16/08/2021 15.55, Jose R. Ziviani wrote:
> If users try to add an isa-vga device that was already registered,
> still in command line, qemu will crash:
>
> $ qemu-system-mips64el -M pica61 -device isa-vga
> RAMBlock "vga.vram" already registered, abort!
> Aborted (core dumped)
>
> That particular board registers the device automaticaly, so it's
> not obvious that a VGA device already exists. This patch changes
> this behavior by displaying a message and exiting without crashing.
>
> Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/44
> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jose R. Ziviani <jziviani@suse.de>
> ---
> v2 to v3: Improved error message
> v1 to v2: Use error_setg instead of error_report
>
>   hw/display/vga-isa.c | 10 ++++++++++
>   1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/hw/display/vga-isa.c b/hw/display/vga-isa.c
> index 90851e730b..30d55b41c3 100644
> --- a/hw/display/vga-isa.c
> +++ b/hw/display/vga-isa.c
> @@ -33,6 +33,7 @@
>   #include "hw/loader.h"
>   #include "hw/qdev-properties.h"
>   #include "qom/object.h"
> +#include "qapi/error.h"
>   
>   #define TYPE_ISA_VGA "isa-vga"
>   OBJECT_DECLARE_SIMPLE_TYPE(ISAVGAState, ISA_VGA)
> @@ -61,6 +62,15 @@ static void vga_isa_realizefn(DeviceState *dev, Error **errp)
>       MemoryRegion *vga_io_memory;
>       const MemoryRegionPortio *vga_ports, *vbe_ports;
>   
> +    /*
> +     * make sure this device is not being added twice, if so
> +     * exit without crashing qemu
> +     */
> +    if (qemu_ram_block_by_name("vga.vram")) {
> +        error_setg(errp, "'isa-vga' device already registered");
> +        return;
> +    }
> +
>       s->global_vmstate = true;
>       vga_common_init(s, OBJECT(dev));
>       s->legacy_address_space = isa_address_space(isadev);

v4 of this patch had other issues ... Philippe's rework of the vga-mmio code 
also did not fix the crash ... shall we just go with this v3 of the patch 
again to fix the issue?

 Thomas