qemu-system-FOO's main() acts on command line arguments in its own
idiosyncratic order. There's not much method to its madness.
Whenever we find a case where one kind of command line argument needs
to refer to something created for another kind later, we rejigger the
order.
Recent commit
cda4aa9a5a "vl: Create block backends before setting
machine properties" was such a rejigger. Block backends are now
created before "delayed" objects. This broke persistent reservation
management. Reproducer:
$ qemu-system-x86_64 -object pr-manager-helper,id=pr-helper0,path=/tmp/pr-helper0.sock-drive -drive file=/dev/mapper/crypt,file.pr-manager=pr-helper0,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-2
qemu-system-x86_64: -drive file=/dev/mapper/crypt,file.pr-manager=pr-helper0,format=raw,if=none,id=drive-scsi0-0-0-2: No persistent reservation manager with id 'pr-helper0'
The delayed pr-manager-helper object is created too late for use by
-drive or -blockdev. Normal objects are still created in time.
pr-manager-helper has always been a delayed object (commit
7c9e527659
"scsi, file-posix: add support for persistent reservation
management"). Turns out there's no real reason for that. Make it a
normal object.
Fixes: cda4aa9a5a08777cf13e164c0543bd4888b8adce
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <
20190604151251.9903-2-armbru@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn@redhat.com>
Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>