Re: [PATCH] vl.c/memdev: Error on bad memory backend

[Dr. David Alan Gilbert]

* Igor Mammedov (address@hidden) wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020 12:07:59 +0000
> "Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git)" <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
> > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> > 
> > If memory-backend is a non-existent object, qemu crashes.
> > Check that the backend actually resolves.
> > 
> > e.g.   ./qemu-system-x86_64 -machine pc,accel=kvm,memory-backend=foo
> 
> there is a patch to fix it already
>  [PATCH] softmmu: fix crash with invalid -M memory-backend=
>    by Marc-André 
> 
> but looks like it fell through cracks ...

Oops, didn't see that.
(I tripped over this because I hadn't originally realised that it was
an object ID rather than object type with options)

Dave

> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> > ---
> >  softmmu/vl.c | 5 +++++
> >  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)
> > 
> > diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
> > index ff2685dff8..76507e99c4 100644
> > --- a/softmmu/vl.c
> > +++ b/softmmu/vl.c
> > @@ -4288,6 +4288,11 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
> >  
> >          backend = object_resolve_path_type(current_machine->ram_memdev_id,
> >                                             TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND, NULL);
> > +        if (!backend) {
> > +            error_report("Unknown memory backend object id '%s'",
> > +                         current_machine->ram_memdev_id);
> > +            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
> > +        }
> >          backend_size = object_property_get_uint(backend, "size",  
> > &error_abort);
> >          if (have_custom_ram_size && backend_size != ram_size) {
> >                  error_report("Size specified by -m option must match size 
> > of "
> 
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK