vmport_register() is also called from other modules such as vmmouse. Therefore, these modules rely that vmport is realized before those call sites. If this is violated, vmport_register() will NULL-deref.
To make such issues easier to debug, assert in vmport_register() that vmport is already realized. Reviewed-by: Nikita Leshenko <nikita.leshche...@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Liran Alon <liran.a...@oracle.com> --- hw/i386/vmport.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/i386/vmport.c b/hw/i386/vmport.c index 9d3921cf418d..134d793a4c65 100644 --- a/hw/i386/vmport.c +++ b/hw/i386/vmport.c @@ -83,6 +83,8 @@ static VMPortState *port_state; void vmport_register(VMPortCommand command, VMPortReadFunc *func, void *opaque) { assert(command < VMPORT_ENTRIES); + assert(port_state); + trace_vmport_register(command, func, opaque); port_state->func[command] = func; port_state->opaque[command] = opaque; -- 2.20.1