RHEL6 clone

+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #970548 +++

An error is reported when readding a character device with the same id as a removed one:

(qemu) chardev-add file,path=foo2,id=foo2
(qemu) chardev-remove foo2
(qemu) chardev-add file,path=foo2,id=foo2
Duplicate ID 'foo2' for chardev
Parsing chardev args failed


--- Additional comment from dengmin on 2013-06-05 16:50:43 IST ---

Hi Paolo,
   I can not reproduce it via QMP,my detail steps:
Build info,
qemu-kvm-common-1.5.0-2.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-tools-1.5.0-2.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-1.5.0-2.el7.x86_64
qemu-kvm-debuginfo-1.5.0-2.el7.x86_64
CLI-
1./usr/libexec/qemu-kvm -cpu SandyBridge -M pc-i440fx-1.5 -enable-kvm -m 4G -smp 4,sockets=2,cores=2,threads=1 -no-kvm-pit-reinjection -usb -device usb-tablet,id=input0 -name sluo-test -uuid a5fd4bfe-ccbf-403d-9a26-41b1b3843729 -rtc base=localtime,clock=host,driftfix=slew -device virtio-serial-pci,id=virtio-serial0,max_ports=16,vectors=0,bus=pci.0,addr=0x3 -chardev socket,id=channel1,path=/tmp/helloworld1,server,nowait -device virtserialport,chardev=channel1,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,bus=virtio-serial0.0,id=port1 -chardev socket,id=channel2,path=/tmp/helloworld2,server,nowait -device virtserialport,chardev=channel2,name=com.redhat.rhevm.vdsm,bus=virtio-serial0.0,id=port2 -drive file=RHEL-Server-7.0-64-virtio-min.qcow2,if=none,id=drive-system-disk,format=qcow2,cache=none,aio=native,werror=stop,rerror=stop -device virtio-blk-pci,bus=pci.0,addr=0x4,drive=drive-system-disk,id=system-disk,bootindex=1 -netdev tap,id=hostnet0,vhost=on,script=/etc/qemu-ifup -device rtl8139,netdev=hostnet0,id=rtl8139-net-pci0,mac=08:2e:5f:0a:0d:a1,bus=pci.0,addr=0x5,bootindex=2 -monitor stdio -vnc :3 -qmp tcp:0:4444,server,nowait

2.{"execute":"chardev-add","arguments":{"id":"bar3","backend":{"type":"file","data":{"out":"/tmp/bar3.log"}}}}

{"return": {}} 

3.{"execute":"chardev-remove","arguments":{"id":"bar3"}}

{"return": {}}

4.{"execute":"chardev-add","arguments":{"id":"bar3","backend":{"type":"file","data":{"out":"/tmp/bar3.log"}}}} 

{"return": {}}

  I repeated many times but I still can not reproduce,if possible,could you please tell me why it cannot be reproduced via qmp? thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Min

--- Additional comment from juzhang on 2013-06-06 07:18:17 IST ---

Additional infos,

Min can reproduce this issue by using HMP commands? Would you please tell QE what's different between HMP and QMP?  QE are using QMP command for usual testing since upper mgmt are using QMP. Thanks in advance .

--- Additional comment from Bandan Das on 2013-07-18 01:14:55 IST ---

The issue here is that the call path to hmp_chardev_remove isn't removing OptsList. The fix is already upstream :

commit 2ea3e2c1e85097c45a882dbc1fbba4a7fdb3ff1c
Author: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Date:   Thu Jun 27 15:25:12 2013 +0200

    qemu-char: Fix ID reuse after chardev-remove for qapi-based init
    
    Commit 2c5f488 introduced qapi-based character device initialization
    as a new code path in qemu_chr_new_from_opts().  Unfortunately, it
    failed to store parameter opts in the new chardev.  Therefore,
    qemu_chr_delete() doesn't delete it.  Even though the device is gone,
    its options linger, and any attempt to create another one with the
    same ID fails.
    
    Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org
    Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
    Reviewed-by: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
    Message-id: 1372339512-28149-1-git-send-email-armbru@redhat.com
    Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>

diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
index a030e6b..63972ae 100644
--- a/qemu-char.c
+++ b/qemu-char.c
@@ -3219,6 +3219,7 @@ CharDriverState *qemu_chr_new_from_opts(QemuOpts *opts,
         }
 
         chr = qemu_chr_find(id);
+        chr->opts = opts;
 
     qapi_out:
         qapi_free_ChardevBackend(backend);