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Commit 5f8e93c3 authored by Peter Maydell's avatar Peter Maydell
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util/qemu-timer: Make timer_free() imply timer_del()


Currently timer_free() is a simple wrapper for g_free().  This means
that the timer being freed must not be currently active, as otherwise
QEMU might crash later when the active list is processed and still
has a pointer to freed memory on it.  As a result almost all calls to
timer_free() are preceded by a timer_del() call, as can be seen in
the output of
  git grep -B1 '\<timer_free\>'

This is unfortunate API design as it makes it easy to accidentally
misuse (by forgetting the timer_del()), and the correct use is
annoyingly verbose.

Make timer_free() imply a timer_del().

Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: default avatarPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRichard Henderson <richard.henderson@linaro.org>
Message-id: 20201215154107.3255-2-peter.maydell@linaro.org
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