A bit embarrassing, this mistake was introduced by me. I submitted a corresponding patch to fix it, but no one has reviewed it. See link below: http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg06506.html
"Eric Blake" <ebl...@redhat.com>wrote: > On 04/03/2018 10:37 AM, no-re...@patchew.org wrote: > > Hi, > > > > This series seems to have some coding style problems. See output below for > > more information: > > > > > === OUTPUT BEGIN === > > Checking PATCH 1/2: Implement .hex file loader... > > ERROR: braces {} are necessary for all arms of this statement > > #220: FILE: hw/core/loader.c:1463: > > + } while (++hex_blob != end); > > [...] > > False positive; this is a known bug in checkpatch.pl, and there is even > a patch proposed to resolve it, but no one has incorporated the patch yet: > > https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg05232.html > > -- > Eric Blake, Principal Software Engineer > Red Hat, Inc. +1-919-301-3266 > Virtualization: qemu.org | libvirt.org >