Re: [PATCH] softmmu: fix crash with invalid -M memory-backend=

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

On 3/9/20 3:51 PM, Marc-André Lureau wrote:

Fixes: fe64d06afc1c5d895f220c268cfe4d5f1e65d44e ("vl.c: ensure that
ram_size matches size of machine.memory-backend")

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Signed-off-by: Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lur...@redhat.com>

Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>

---
  softmmu/vl.c | 5 +++++
  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index 5549f4b619..38e9c404f2 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -4287,6 +4287,11 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)

backend = object_resolve_path_type(current_machine->ram_memdev_id,

                                             TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND, NULL);
+        if (!backend) {
+            error_report("Memory backend '%s' not found",
+                         current_machine->ram_memdev_id);
+            exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+        }
          backend_size = object_property_get_uint(backend, "size",  
&error_abort);
          if (have_custom_ram_size && backend_size != ram_size) {
                  error_report("Size specified by -m option must match size of "