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    test/py: handle exceptions in console creation · 93134e18
    Stephen Warren authored
    
    
    u_boot_console.exec_attach.get_spawn() performs two steps:
    1) Spawn a process to communicate with the serial console.
    2) Reset the board so that U-Boot starts running from scratch.
    
    Currently, if an exception happens in step (2), no cleanup is performed on
    the process created in step (1). That process stays running and may e.g.
    hold serial port locks, or simply continue to read data from the serial
    port, thus preventing it from reaching any other process that attempts to
    read from the same serial port later. While there is error cleanup code in
    u_boot_console_base.ensure_spawned(), this is not triggered since the
    exception prevents assignment to self.p there, and hence the exception
    handler has no object to operate upon in cleanup_spawn().
    
    Solve this by enhancing u_boot_console.exec_attach.get_spawn() to clean
    up any objects it has created.
    
    In theory, u_boot_spawn.Spawn's constructor has a similar issue, so fix
    this too.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarSimon Glass <sjg@chromium.org>
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