---Steps to Reproduce--- When passed a negative number to 'maxcpus' parameter, Qemu aborts with a core dump.
Run the following command with maxcpus argument as negative number ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 --nographic -vga none -machine pseries,accel=kvm,kvm-type=HV -m size=200g -device virtio-blk-pci, drive=rootdisk -drive file=/home/images/pegas-1.0-ppc64le.qcow2, if=none,cache=none,id=rootdisk,format=qcow2 -monitor telnet :127.0.0.1:1234,server,nowait -net nic,model=virtio -net user -redir tcp:2000::22 -device nec-usb-xhci -smp 8,cores=1, threads=1,maxcpus=-12 (process:12149): GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:130: failed to allocate 18446744073709550568 bytes Trace/breakpoint trap Reported-by: R.Nageswara Sastry <rnsas...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Seeteena Thoufeek <s1see...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- v1 -> v2: - Fix the error check in vl.c to make it generic. v2 -> v3: - Fix coding style pointed out by patchew. - Fix check for "<= 0" instead of just "< 0". v3 -> v4: - Fix subject line. - Removed space before ":" from vl.c:1248 - Removed Reviewed-by: flag. --- vl.c | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index 8e247cc..2d9e73d 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -1244,7 +1244,10 @@ static void smp_parse(QemuOpts *opts) } max_cpus = qemu_opt_get_number(opts, "maxcpus", cpus); - + if (max_cpus <= 0) { + error_report("Invalid max_cpus: %d", max_cpus); + exit(1); + } if (max_cpus < cpus) { error_report("maxcpus must be equal to or greater than smp"); exit(1); -- 1.8.3.1