qom: don't require user creatable objects to be registered

When an object is in turn owned by another user object, it is not
desirable to expose this in the QOM object hierarchy. It is just an
internal implementation detail, we should be free to change without
exposure to apps managing QEMU.

Reviewed-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Tested-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>

2 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index b8c7320..05a8567 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -646,16 +646,20 @@ Object *object_new_with_propv(const char *typename,
         goto error;
     }
 
-    object_property_add_child(parent, id, obj, &local_err);
-    if (local_err) {
-        goto error;
+    if (id != NULL) {
+        object_property_add_child(parent, id, obj, &local_err);
+        if (local_err) {
+            goto error;
+        }
     }
 
     uc = (UserCreatable *)object_dynamic_cast(obj, TYPE_USER_CREATABLE);
     if (uc) {
         user_creatable_complete(uc, &local_err);
         if (local_err) {
-            object_unparent(obj);
+            if (id != NULL) {
+                object_unparent(obj);
+            }
             goto error;
         }
     }
diff --git a/qom/object_interfaces.c b/qom/object_interfaces.c
index db85d1e..cb58099 100644
--- a/qom/object_interfaces.c
+++ b/qom/object_interfaces.c
@@ -75,16 +75,20 @@ Object *user_creatable_add_type(const char *type, const char *id,
         goto out;
     }
 
-    object_property_add_child(object_get_objects_root(),
-                              id, obj, &local_err);
-    if (local_err) {
-        goto out;
+    if (id != NULL) {
+        object_property_add_child(object_get_objects_root(),
+                                  id, obj, &local_err);
+        if (local_err) {
+            goto out;
+        }
     }
 
     user_creatable_complete(USER_CREATABLE(obj), &local_err);
     if (local_err) {
-        object_property_del(object_get_objects_root(),
-                            id, &error_abort);
+        if (id != NULL) {
+            object_property_del(object_get_objects_root(),
+                                id, &error_abort);
+        }
         goto out;
     }
 out: