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authorMarc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>2018-04-19 17:01:44 +0200
committerMarkus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>2018-05-04 08:27:53 +0200
commitf5a74a5a50387c6f980b2e2f94f062487a1826da (patch)
treeeefbe4d2f8bb0f889c9643d140fd702f131c4fd0 /include/qapi
parentcb3e7f08aeaab0ab13e629ce8496dca150a449ba (diff)
qobject: Modify qobject_ref() to return obj
For convenience and clarity, make it possible to call qobject_ref() at the time when the reference is associated with a variable, or argument, by making qobject_ref() return the same pointer as given. Use that to simplify the callers. Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20180419150145.24795-5-marcandre.lureau@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> [Useless change to qobject_ref_impl() dropped, commit message improved slightly] Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/qapi')
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h3
-rw-r--r--include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h9
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h
index 75b29c6a39..c1426882c5 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qnull.h
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ extern QNull qnull_;
static inline QNull *qnull(void)
{
- qobject_ref(&qnull_);
- return &qnull_;
+ return qobject_ref(&qnull_);
}
bool qnull_is_equal(const QObject *x, const QObject *y);
diff --git a/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h b/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
index e20006faf5..fcfd549220 100644
--- a/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
+++ b/include/qapi/qmp/qobject.h
@@ -103,8 +103,15 @@ static inline void qobject_unref_impl(QObject *obj)
/**
* qobject_ref(): Increment QObject's reference count
+ *
+ * Returns: the same @obj. The type of @obj will be propagated to the
+ * return type.
*/
-#define qobject_ref(obj) qobject_ref_impl(QOBJECT(obj))
+#define qobject_ref(obj) ({ \
+ typeof(obj) _o = (obj); \
+ qobject_ref_impl(QOBJECT(_o)); \
+ _o; \
+})
/**
* qobject_unref(): Decrement QObject's reference count, deallocate