qemu_chardev_set_replay() was being called in chardev creation to set up replay parameters even if the chardev is NULL.
A segfault can be reproduced by specifying '-serial chardev:bad' with an rr=record mode. Fix this with a NULL pointer check. Reported-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Resolves: Coverity CID 1559470 Fixes: 4c193bb129dae ("chardev: set record/replay on the base device of a muxed device") Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npig...@gmail.com> --- chardev/char.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/chardev/char.c b/chardev/char.c index ba847b6e9e..47a744ebeb 100644 --- a/chardev/char.c +++ b/chardev/char.c @@ -721,7 +721,7 @@ static Chardev *__qemu_chr_new(const char *label, const char *filename, if (strstart(filename, "chardev:", &p)) { chr = qemu_chr_find(p); - if (replay) { + if (replay && chr) { qemu_chardev_set_replay(chr, &err); if (err) { error_report_err(err); -- 2.45.2