Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] spapr_pci: fix potential NULL pointer dereference

[David Gibson]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2018 at 05:30:04PM +0200, Greg Kurz wrote:
> Commit 2c88b098e76fd added a call to SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(spapr) in
> spapr_phb_realize() before we check spapr isn't NULL. This causes QEMU
> to crash when starting a non-pseries machine with a sPAPR PHB.
> 
> This could be fixed by setting the smc variable after the null check,
> but it seems more explicit to use a ternary operator to skip the call
> to SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS() if spapr is NULL, since spapr_phb_realize()
> will return immediately in this case.
> 
> This was reported by Coverity (CID 1395170 and 1395183).
> 
> Fixes: 2c88b098e76fde0c7fcc0476dd3f80ce58409505
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <address@hidden>

Applied, thanks.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c |    2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c
> index 5cd676e4430d..6bcb4f419b6b 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c
> @@ -1559,7 +1559,7 @@ static void spapr_phb_realize(DeviceState *dev, Error 
> **errp)
>      sPAPRMachineState *spapr =
>          (sPAPRMachineState *) object_dynamic_cast(qdev_get_machine(),
>                                                    TYPE_SPAPR_MACHINE);
> -    sPAPRMachineClass *smc = SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(spapr);
> +    sPAPRMachineClass *smc = spapr ? SPAPR_MACHINE_GET_CLASS(spapr) : NULL;
>      SysBusDevice *s = SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev);
>      sPAPRPHBState *sphb = SPAPR_PCI_HOST_BRIDGE(s);
>      PCIHostState *phb = PCI_HOST_BRIDGE(s);
> 

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