#include "hw/virtio/virtio-rng.h"
 #include "sysemu/rng.h"
 #include "sysemu/runstate.h"
+#include "sysemu/rng-random.h"
 #include "qom/object_interfaces.h"
 #include "trace.h"
 
     }
 
     if (vrng->conf.rng == NULL) {
-        vrng->conf.default_backend = RNG_RANDOM(object_new(TYPE_RNG_RANDOM));
+        Object *default_backend = object_new(TYPE_RNG_RANDOM);
 
-        user_creatable_complete(USER_CREATABLE(vrng->conf.default_backend),
+        user_creatable_complete(USER_CREATABLE(default_backend),
                                 &local_err);
         if (local_err) {
             error_propagate(errp, local_err);
-            object_unref(OBJECT(vrng->conf.default_backend));
+            object_unref(default_backend);
             return;
         }
 
-        object_property_add_child(OBJECT(dev),
-                                  "default-backend",
-                                  OBJECT(vrng->conf.default_backend),
-                                  NULL);
+        object_property_add_child(OBJECT(dev), "default-backend",
+                                  default_backend, &error_abort);
 
         /* The child property took a reference, we can safely drop ours now */
-        object_unref(OBJECT(vrng->conf.default_backend));
+        object_unref(default_backend);
 
-        object_property_set_link(OBJECT(dev),
-                                 OBJECT(vrng->conf.default_backend),
-                                 "rng", NULL);
+        object_property_set_link(OBJECT(dev), default_backend,
+                                 "rng", &error_abort);
     }
 
     vrng->rng = vrng->conf.rng;
 
 
 #include "hw/virtio/virtio.h"
 #include "sysemu/rng.h"
-#include "sysemu/rng-random.h"
 #include "standard-headers/linux/virtio_rng.h"
 
 #define TYPE_VIRTIO_RNG "virtio-rng-device"
     RngBackend *rng;
     uint64_t max_bytes;
     uint32_t period_ms;
-    RngRandom *default_backend;
 };
 
 typedef struct VirtIORNG {