On Tue, Jun 12, 2018 at 07:26:25AM +0800, Jie Wang wrote:
> if laio_init create linux_aio failed and return NULL, NULL pointer
> dereference will occur when laio_attach_aio_context dereference
> linux_aio in aio_get_linux_aio. Let's avoid it and report error.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jie Wang <wangji...@huawei.com>
> ---
>  block/file-posix.c | 19 +++++++++++++++++--
>  util/async.c       |  5 ++++-
>  2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

If someone wants to split aio_get_linux_aio() into an initialization
function and a "get" function which doesn't return NULL if init
succeeded, then we can make this a bit cleaner.  But it doesn't matter
at the moment since there are few callers and duplicating the NULL check
isn't too bad.

Thanks, applied to my block tree:
https://github.com/stefanha/qemu/commits/block

Stefan

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