mirror_qemu/qom
Thomas Huth b447378e12 qom/object: Limit type names to alphanumerical and some few special characters
QOM names currently don't have any enforced naming rules. This
can be problematic, e.g. when they are used on the command line
for the "-device" option (where the comma is used to separate
properties). To avoid that such problematic type names come in
again, let's restrict the set of acceptable characters during the
type registration.

Ideally, we'd apply here the same rules as for QAPI, i.e. all type
names should begin with a letter, and contain only ASCII letters,
digits, hyphen, and underscore. However, we already have so many
pre-existing types like:

    486-x86_64-cpu
    cfi.pflash01
    power5+_v2.1-spapr-cpu-core
    virt-2.6-machine
    pc-i440fx-3.0-machine

... so that we have to allow "." and "+" for now, too. While the
dot is used in a lot of places, the "+" can fortunately be limited
to two classes of legacy names ("power" and "Sun-UltraSparc" CPUs).

We also cannot enforce the rule that names must start with a letter
yet, since there are lot of types that start with a digit. Still,
at least limiting the first characters to the alphanumerical range
should be way better than nothing.

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
Message-ID: <20231117114457.177308-6-thuth@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@wdc.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
2023-12-20 10:29:23 +01:00
..
container.c qom/container: remove .instance_size initializer from container_info 2020-06-10 12:09:59 -04:00
meson.build meson: Replace softmmu_ss -> system_ss 2023-06-20 10:01:30 +02:00
object.c qom/object: Limit type names to alphanumerical and some few special characters 2023-12-20 10:29:23 +01:00
object_interfaces.c qom/object_interfaces: Clean up global variable shadowing 2023-10-06 13:27:48 +02:00
qom-hmp-cmds.c qom: Move HMP commands from monitor/ to qom/ 2023-02-04 07:56:54 +01:00
qom-qmp-cmds.c qapi qdev qom: Elide redundant has_FOO in generated C 2022-12-14 20:05:07 +01:00
qom-qobject.c error: Eliminate error_propagate() manually 2020-07-10 15:18:08 +02:00
trace-events docs: fix references to docs/devel/tracing.rst 2021-06-02 06:51:09 +02:00
trace.h trace: switch position of headers to what Meson requires 2020-08-21 06:18:24 -04:00