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

Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange@redhat.com>
---
 qom/object.c            | 12 ++++++++----
 qom/object_interfaces.c | 16 ++++++++++------
 2 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/qom/object.c b/qom/object.c
index 75d1d48944..fff85d6d62 100644
--- a/qom/object.c
+++ b/qom/object.c
@@ -600,15 +600,19 @@ 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;
+        }
     }
 
     if (object_dynamic_cast(obj, TYPE_USER_CREATABLE)) {
         user_creatable_complete(obj, &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 72b97a8bed..e0f12c0a9b 100644
--- a/qom/object_interfaces.c
+++ b/qom/object_interfaces.c
@@ -83,16 +83,20 @@ 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(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:
-- 
2.17.1