char: add qemu_chr_free()

If a chardev is allowed to be created outside of QMP, then it must be
also possible to free it. This is useful for ivshmem that creates
chardev anonymously and must be able to free them.

Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Claudio Fontana <claudio.fontana@huawei.com>

2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/include/sysemu/char.h b/include/sysemu/char.h
index edf76693d9..aff193f080 100644
--- a/include/sysemu/char.h
+++ b/include/sysemu/char.h
@@ -128,11 +128,19 @@ CharDriverState *qemu_chr_new(const char *label, const char *filename,
 /**
  * @qemu_chr_delete:
  *
- * Destroy a character backend.
+ * Destroy a character backend and remove it from the list of
+ * identified character backends.
  */
 void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr);
 
 /**
+ * @qemu_chr_free:
+ *
+ * Destroy a character backend.
+ */
+void qemu_chr_free(CharDriverState *chr);
+
+/**
  * @qemu_chr_fe_set_echo:
  *
  * Ask the backend to override its normal echo setting.  This only really
diff --git a/qemu-char.c b/qemu-char.c
index 908e7124eb..c4eb4eea31 100644
--- a/qemu-char.c
+++ b/qemu-char.c
@@ -3876,9 +3876,8 @@ void qemu_chr_fe_release(CharDriverState *s)
     s->avail_connections++;
 }
 
-void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr)
+void qemu_chr_free(CharDriverState *chr)
 {
-    QTAILQ_REMOVE(&chardevs, chr, next);
     if (chr->chr_close) {
         chr->chr_close(chr);
     }
@@ -3888,6 +3887,12 @@ void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr)
     g_free(chr);
 }
 
+void qemu_chr_delete(CharDriverState *chr)
+{
+    QTAILQ_REMOVE(&chardevs, chr, next);
+    qemu_chr_free(chr);
+}
+
 ChardevInfoList *qmp_query_chardev(Error **errp)
 {
     ChardevInfoList *chr_list = NULL;