Starting qemu-system-unicore32 without the -kernel parameter results in an assert() returns false and aborts qemu. This patch replaces it with a proper error message followed by exit(1).
Signed-off-by: Eduardo Otubo <ot...@redhat.com> --- hw/unicore32/puv3.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/hw/unicore32/puv3.c b/hw/unicore32/puv3.c index e9d1a60b6f..ff62efb4df 100644 --- a/hw/unicore32/puv3.c +++ b/hw/unicore32/puv3.c @@ -92,7 +92,10 @@ static void puv3_load_kernel(const char *kernel_filename) if (kernel_filename == NULL && qtest_enabled()) { return; } - assert(kernel_filename != NULL); + if (kernel_filename == NULL) { + error_report("kernel parameter cannot be empty"); + exit(1); + } /* only zImage format supported */ size = load_image_targphys(kernel_filename, KERNEL_LOAD_ADDR, -- 2.13.3