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, 13 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/qapi.py b/scripts/qapi.py
index c9e4ad2d9e..2b46dd095f 100644
--- a/scripts/qapi.py
+++ b/scripts/qapi.py
@@ -635,8 +635,8 @@ def check_alternate(expr, expr_info):
     for (key, value) in members.items():
         check_name(expr_info, "Member of alternate '%s'" % name, key)
 
-        # Check for conflicts in the generated enum
-        c_key = camel_to_upper(key)
+        # Check for conflicts in the branch names
+        c_key = c_name(key)
         if c_key in values:
             raise QAPIExprError(expr_info,
                                 "Alternate '%s' member '%s' clashes with '%s'"
@@ -1092,8 +1092,11 @@ class QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants(object):
         assert isinstance(self.tag_member.type, QAPISchemaEnumType)
         for v in self.variants:
             v.check(schema)
-            assert v.name in self.tag_member.type.values
-            if isinstance(v.type, QAPISchemaObjectType):
+            # Union names must match enum values; alternate names are
+            # checked separately. Use 'seen' to tell the two apart.
+            if seen:
+                assert v.name in self.tag_member.type.values
+                assert isinstance(v.type, QAPISchemaObjectType)
                 v.type.check(schema)
 
     def check_clash(self, schema, info, seen):
@@ -1135,6 +1138,11 @@ class QAPISchemaAlternateType(QAPISchemaType):
         # Not calling self.variants.check_clash(), because there's nothing
         # to clash with
         self.variants.check(schema, {})
+        # Alternate branch names have no relation to the tag enum values;
+        # so we have to check for potential name collisions ourselves.
+        seen = {}
+        for v in self.variants.variants:
+            v.check_clash(self.info, seen)
 
     def json_type(self):
         return 'value'
@@ -1342,7 +1350,7 @@ class QAPISchema(object):
         data = expr['data']
         variants = [self._make_variant(key, value)
                     for (key, value) in data.iteritems()]
-        tag_member = self._make_implicit_tag(name, info, variants)
+        tag_member = QAPISchemaObjectTypeMember('type', 'QType', False)
         self._def_entity(
             QAPISchemaAlternateType(name, info,
                                     QAPISchemaObjectTypeVariants(None,