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authorMichael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>2012-12-30 12:48:14 +0400
committerAnthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>2013-01-02 13:32:41 -0600
commitab51b1d568e02c80b1abf9016bda3a86dc1db389 (patch)
treecac5c53f509b8453f876253b96877fdea299f6cd /vl.c
parent217da7fdeb2a4c99c49f22f9dc64c8df2e3a4387 (diff)
disallow -daemonize usage of stdio (curses display, -nographic, -serial stdio etc)
Curses display requires stdin/out to stay on the terminal, so -daemonize makes no sense in this case. Instead of leaving display uninitialized like is done since 995ee2bf469de6bb, explicitly detect this case earlier and error out. -nographic can actually be used with -daemonize, by redirecting everything to a null device, but the problem is that according to documentation and historical behavour, -nographic redirects guest ports to stdin/out, which, again, makes no sense in case of -daemonize. Since -nographic is a legacy option, don't bother fixing this case (to allow -nographic and -daemonize by redirecting guest ports to null instead of stdin/out in this case), but disallow it completely instead, to stop garbling host terminal. If no display display needed and user wants to use -nographic, the right way to go is to use -serial null -parallel null -monitor none -display none -vga none instead of -nographic. Also prevent the same issue -- it was possible to get garbled host tty after -nographic -daemonize and it is still possible to have it by using -serial stdio -daemonize Fix this by disallowing opening stdio chardev when -daemonize is specified. Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'vl.c')
-rw-r--r--vl.c28
1 files changed, 25 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c
index e6a8d89acc..f056c95807 100644
--- a/vl.c
+++ b/vl.c
@@ -3637,6 +3637,30 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
default_sdcard = 0;
}
+ if (is_daemonized()) {
+ /* According to documentation and historically, -nographic redirects
+ * serial port, parallel port and monitor to stdio, which does not work
+ * with -daemonize. We can redirect these to null instead, but since
+ * -nographic is legacy, let's just error out.
+ * We disallow -nographic only if all other ports are not redirected
+ * explicitly, to not break existing legacy setups which uses
+ * -nographic _and_ redirects all ports explicitly - this is valid
+ * usage, -nographic is just a no-op in this case.
+ */
+ if (display_type == DT_NOGRAPHIC
+ && (default_parallel || default_serial
+ || default_monitor || default_virtcon)) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "-nographic can not be used with -daemonize\n");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+#ifdef CONFIG_CURSES
+ if (display_type == DT_CURSES) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "curses display can not be used with -daemonize\n");
+ exit(1);
+ }
+#endif
+ }
+
if (display_type == DT_NOGRAPHIC) {
if (default_parallel)
add_device_config(DEV_PARALLEL, "null");
@@ -3903,9 +3927,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
break;
#if defined(CONFIG_CURSES)
case DT_CURSES:
- if (!is_daemonized()) {
- curses_display_init(ds, full_screen);
- }
+ curses_display_init(ds, full_screen);
break;
#endif
#if defined(CONFIG_SDL)