From: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> If an attempt to create a qdev device on the default sysbus (by passing NULL as the bus to qdev_create) fails, print a useful error message rather than crashing trying to dereference a NULL pointer.
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> Reviewed-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- hw/qdev.c | 7 ++++++- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/hw/qdev.c b/hw/qdev.c index 6819537..d8114c6 100644 --- a/hw/qdev.c +++ b/hw/qdev.c @@ -111,7 +111,12 @@ DeviceState *qdev_create(BusState *bus, const char *name) dev = qdev_try_create(bus, name); if (!dev) { - hw_error("Unknown device '%s' for bus '%s'\n", name, bus->info->name); + if (bus) { + hw_error("Unknown device '%s' for bus '%s'\n", name, + bus->info->name); + } else { + hw_error("Unknown device '%s' for default sysbus\n", name); + } } return dev; -- 1.7.5.4