From: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Calling g_mapped_file_unref() on a NULL pointer is not valid, and glib will assert if you try it.
$ qemu-system-arm -M virt -display none -device loader,file=/tmp/bad.elf qemu-system-arm: -device loader,file=/tmp/bad.elf: GLib: g_mapped_file_unref: assertion 'file != NULL' failed (One way to produce an ELF file that fails like this is to copy just the first 16 bytes of a valid ELF file; this is sufficient to fool the code in load_elf_ram_sym() into thinking it's an ELF file and calling load_elf32() or load_elf64().) The failure-exit path in load_elf can be reached from various points in execution, and for some of those we haven't yet called g_mapped_file_new_from_fd(). Add a condition to the unref call so we only call it if we successfully created the GMappedFile to start with. This will fix the assertion; for the specific case of the generic loader it will then fall back from "guess this is an ELF file" to "maybe it's a uImage or a hex file" and eventually to "just load as a raw data file". Reported-by: Randy Yates <ya...@ieee.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <phi...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefano Garzarella <sgarz...@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20200423202011.32686-1-peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laur...@vivier.eu> --- include/hw/elf_ops.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/hw/elf_ops.h b/include/hw/elf_ops.h index e0bb47bb678d..398a4a2c85bb 100644 --- a/include/hw/elf_ops.h +++ b/include/hw/elf_ops.h @@ -606,7 +606,9 @@ static int glue(load_elf, SZ)(const char *name, int fd, *highaddr = (uint64_t)(elf_sword)high; ret = total_size; fail: - g_mapped_file_unref(mapped_file); + if (mapped_file) { + g_mapped_file_unref(mapped_file); + } g_free(phdr); return ret; } -- 2.26.2