If the os is not installed and doesn't have the virtio guest driver, the vhost dev isn't started, so the dev->vdev is NULL.
Reproduce: mount a Win 2019 iso, go into the install ui, then resize the virtio-blk device, qemu crash. Signed-off-by: Li Feng <fen...@smartx.com> --- hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c b/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c index 9117222456..db30bb754f 100644 --- a/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c +++ b/hw/block/vhost-user-blk.c @@ -95,6 +95,10 @@ static int vhost_user_blk_handle_config_change(struct vhost_dev *dev) VHostUserBlk *s = VHOST_USER_BLK(dev->vdev); Error *local_err = NULL; + if (!dev->started) { + return 0; + } + ret = vhost_dev_get_config(dev, (uint8_t *)&blkcfg, sizeof(struct virtio_blk_config), &local_err); -- 2.37.3