Re: [Qemu-trivial] [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v1] vl: Fix possible freed memory accessing

[Markus Armbruster]

zhanghailiang <address@hidden> writes:

> The logic of pcmcia_socket_unregister is wrong,
> which will cause a freed memory accessing
>
> Signed-off-by: zhanghailiang <address@hidden>
> ---
> Hi,
>
> The function pcmcia_socket_unregister seemes to be unused,
> Should it be removed? Thanks.

I think we should remove the whole thing: pcmcia_sockets,
pcmcia_socket_register(), pcmcia_socket_unregister, pcmcia_info().
Here's why.

It serves just one purpose: "info pcmcia".  HMP-only, therefore not a
stable interface.  But is it a useful one?

The only caller of pcmcia_socket_register() is pxa2xx_pcmcia_realize(),
of device model "pxa2xx-pcmcia".  As far as I can tell, used only by a
couple of ARM boards: "verdex", "mainstone", "akita", "spitz", "borzoi",
"terrier", "z2", "connex", "tosa".

Of these, only "akita", "spitz", "borzoi", "terrier" and "tosa" insert a
card into the slot, and they do so right on board initialization.
Nothing ever ejects a card from a slot.  Therefore, "info pcmcia"
effectively prints a fixed, machine-specific string so far.  Doesn't
sound useful to me.

If we acquire PCMCIA devices where querying status is interesting, we'll
want a QMP command, so this code will be pretty much useless.

Peter M., what do you think?