From: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
If qemu_find_file() doesn't find the BIOS it returns NULL; we were
passing that unchecked through to load_elf(), which assumes a non-NULL
pointer and may misbehave. In practice it fails with a weird message:
$ qemu-system-ppc -M ppce500 -display none -kernel nonesuch
Bad address
qemu-system-ppc: could not load firmware '(null)'
Handle the failure case better:
$ qemu-system-ppc -M ppce500 -display none -kernel nonesuch
qemu-system-ppc: could not find firmware/kernel file 'nonesuch'
Spotted by Coverity (CID 1238954).
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20200324121216.23899-1-peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David Gibson <da...@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
---
hw/ppc/e500.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/hw/ppc/e500.c b/hw/ppc/e500.c
index 854cd3ac46..0d1f41197c 100644
--- a/hw/ppc/e500.c
+++ b/hw/ppc/e500.c
@@ -1047,6 +1047,10 @@ void ppce500_init(MachineState *machine)
}
filename = qemu_find_file(QEMU_FILE_TYPE_BIOS, payload_name);
+ if (!filename) {
+ error_report("could not find firmware/kernel file '%s'", payload_name);
+ exit(1);
+ }
payload_size = load_elf(filename, NULL, NULL, NULL,
&bios_entry, &loadaddr, NULL, NULL,
--
2.25.2
