Until now, array properties are actually implemented with a hack that
uses multiple properties on the QOM level: a static "foo-len" property
and after it is set, dynamically created "foo[i]" properties.
In external interfaces (-device on the command line and device_add in
QMP), this interface was broken by commit f3558b1b ('qdev: Base object
creation on QDict rather than QemuOpts') because QDicts are unordered
and therefore it could happen that QEMU tried to set the indexed
properties before setting the length, which fails and effectively makes
array properties inaccessible. In particular, this affects the 'ports'
property of the 'rocker' device, which used to be configured like this:
-device rocker,len-ports=2,ports[0]=dev0,ports[1]=dev1
This patch reworks the external interface so that instead of using a
separate top-level property for the length and for each element, we use
a single true array property that accepts a list value. In the external
interfaces, this is naturally expressed as a JSON list and makes array
properties accessible again. The new syntax looks like this:
-device '{"driver":"rocker","ports":["dev0","dev1"]}'
Creating an array property on the command line without using JSON format
is currently not possible. This could be fixed by switching from
QemuOpts to a keyval parser, which however requires consideration of the
compatibility implications.
All internal users of devices with array properties go through
qdev_prop_set_array() at this point, so updating it takes care of all of
them.
Resolves: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/issues/1090
Fixes: f3558b1b763683bb877f7dd5b282469cdadc65c3
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-ID: <20231109174240.72376-12-kwolf@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
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