qapi: Simplify visiting of alternate types

Previously, working with alternates required two lookup arrays
and some indirection: for type Foo, we created Foo_qtypes[]
which maps each qtype to a value of the generated FooKind enum,
then look up that value in FooKind_lookup[] like we do for other
union types.

This has a couple of subtle bugs.  First, the generator was
creating a call with a parameter '(int *) &(*obj)->type' where
type is an enum type; this is unsafe if the compiler chooses
to store the enum type in a different size than int, where
assigning through the wrong size pointer can corrupt data or
cause a SIGBUS.

Related bug, not not fixed in this patch: qapi-visit.py's
gen_visit_enum() generates a cast of its enum * argument to
int *. Marked FIXME.

Second, since the values of the FooKind enum start at zero, all
entries of the Foo_qtypes[] array that were not explicitly
initialized will map to the same branch of the union as the
first member of the alternate, rather than triggering a desired
failure in visit_get_next_type().  Fortunately, the bug seldom
bites; the very next thing the input visitor does is try to
parse the incoming JSON with the wrong parser, which normally
fails; the output visitor is not used with a C struct in that
state, and the dealloc visitor has nothing to clean up (so
there is no leak).

However, the second bug IS observable in one case: parsing an
integer causes unusual behavior in an alternate that contains
at least a 'number' member but no 'int' member, because the
'number' parser accepts QTYPE_QINT in addition to the expected
QTYPE_QFLOAT (that is, since 'int' is not a member, the type
QTYPE_QINT accidentally maps to FooKind 0; if this enum value
is the 'number' branch the integer parses successfully, but if
the 'number' branch is not first, some other branch tries to
parse the integer and rejects it).  A later patch will worry
about fixing alternates to always parse all inputs that a
non-alternate 'number' would accept, for now this is still
marked FIXME in the updated test-qmp-input-visitor.c, to
merely point out that new undesired behavior of 'ans' matches
the existing undesired behavior of 'asn'.

This patch fixes the default-initialization bug by deleting the
indirection, and modifying get_next_type() to directly assign a
QTypeCode parameter.  This in turn fixes the type-casting bug,
as we are no longer casting a pointer to enum to a questionable
size. There is no longer a need to generate an implicit FooKind
enum associated with the alternate type (since the QMP wire
format never uses the stringized counterparts of the C union
member names).  Since the updated visit_get_next_type() does not
know which qtypes are expected, the generated visitor is
modified to generate an error statement if an unexpected type is
encountered.

Callers now have to know the QTYPE_* mapping when looking at the
discriminator; but so far, only the testsuite was even using the
C struct of an alternate types.  I considered the possibility of
keeping the internal enum FooKind, but initialized differently
than most generated arrays, as in:
  typedef enum FooKind {
      FOO_KIND_A = QTYPE_QDICT,
      FOO_KIND_B = QTYPE_QINT,
  } FooKind;
to create nicer aliases for knowing when to use foo->a or foo->b
when inspecting foo->type; but it turned out to add too much
complexity, especially without a client.

There is a user-visible side effect to this change, but I
consider it to be an improvement. Previously,
the invalid QMP command:
  {"execute":"blockdev-add", "arguments":{"options":
    {"driver":"raw", "id":"a", "file":true}}}
failed with:
  {"error": {"class": "GenericError",
    "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'file', expected: QDict"}}
(visit_get_next_type() succeeded, and the error comes from the
visit_type_BlockdevOptions() expecting {}; there is no mention of
the fact that a string would also work).  Now it fails with:
  {"error": {"class": "GenericError",
    "desc": "Invalid parameter type for 'file', expected: BlockdevRef"}}
(the error when the next type doesn't match any expected types for
the overall alternate).

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
Message-Id: <1449033659-25497-5-git-send-email-eblake@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qapi-visit.py b/scripts/qapi-visit.py
index 7ceda18bdb..4797d6e050 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi-visit.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi-visit.py
@@ -172,6 +172,7 @@ out:
 
 
 def gen_visit_enum(name):
+    # FIXME cast from enum *obj to int * invalidly assumes enum is int
     return mcgen('''
 
 void visit_type_%(c_name)s(Visitor *v, %(c_name)s *obj, const char *name, Error **errp)
@@ -193,7 +194,7 @@ void visit_type_%(c_name)s(Visitor *v, %(c_name)s **obj, const char *name, Error
     if (err) {
         goto out;
     }
-    visit_get_next_type(v, (int*) &(*obj)->type, %(c_name)s_qtypes, name, &err);
+    visit_get_next_type(v, &(*obj)->type, name, &err);
     if (err) {
         goto out_obj;
     }
@@ -201,20 +202,22 @@ void visit_type_%(c_name)s(Visitor *v, %(c_name)s **obj, const char *name, Error
 ''',
                 c_name=c_name(name))
 
+    # FIXME: When 'number' but not 'int' is present in the alternate, we
+    # should allow QTYPE_INT to promote to QTYPE_FLOAT.
     for var in variants.variants:
         ret += mcgen('''
     case %(case)s:
         visit_type_%(c_type)s(v, &(*obj)->u.%(c_name)s, name, &err);
         break;
 ''',
-                     case=c_enum_const(variants.tag_member.type.name,
-                                       var.name),
+                     case=var.type.alternate_qtype(),
                      c_type=var.type.c_name(),
                      c_name=c_name(var.name))
 
     ret += mcgen('''
     default:
-        abort();
+        error_setg(&err, QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_TYPE, name ? name : "null",
+                   "%(name)s");
     }
 out_obj:
     error_propagate(errp, err);
@@ -223,7 +226,8 @@ out_obj:
 out:
     error_propagate(errp, err);
 }
-''')
+''',
+                 name=name)
 
     return ret
 
@@ -437,6 +441,7 @@ fdef.write(mcgen('''
 
 fdecl.write(mcgen('''
 #include "qapi/visitor.h"
+#include "qapi/qmp/qerror.h"
 #include "%(prefix)sqapi-types.h"
 
 ''',