net: Introduce NetClientInfo.check_peer_type()

Some network backends (vhost-user and vhost-vdpa) work only with
specific devices. At startup, they second guess what the command line
option handling will do and error out if they think a non-virtio device
will attach to them.

This second guessing is not only ugly, it can lead to wrong error
messages ('-device floppy,netdev=foo' should complain about an unknown
property, not about the wrong kind of network device being attached) and
completely ignores hotplugging.

Add a callback where backends can check compatibility with a device when
it actually tries to attach, even on hotplug.

Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <20211008133442.141332-2-kwolf@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Damien Hedde <damien.hedde@greensocs.com>
Acked-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c b/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c
index e71f5d64d1..a91f60567a 100644
--- a/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c
+++ b/hw/core/qdev-properties-system.c
@@ -431,6 +431,12 @@ static void set_netdev(Object *obj, Visitor *v, const char *name,
             goto out;
         }
 
+        if (peers[i]->info->check_peer_type) {
+            if (!peers[i]->info->check_peer_type(peers[i], obj->class, errp)) {
+                goto out;
+            }
+        }
+
         ncs[i] = peers[i];
         ncs[i]->queue_index = i;
     }