On Tue, 28 Mar 2023 at 17:59, Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> At this moment, arm_load_dtb() can free machine->fdt when
> binfo->dtb_filename is NULL. If there's no 'dtb_filename', 'fdt' will be
> retrieved by binfo->get_dtb(). If get_dtb() returns machine->fdt, as is
> the case of machvirt_dtb() from hw/arm/virt.c, fdt now has a pointer to
> machine->fdt. And, in that case, the existing g_free(fdt) at the end of
> arm_load_dtb() will make machine->fdt point to an invalid memory region.
>
> Since monitor command 'dumpdtb' was introduced a couple of releases
> ago, running it with any ARM machine that uses arm_load_dtb() will
> crash QEMU.
>
> Let's enable all arm_load_dtb() callers to use dumpdtb properly. Instead
> of freeing 'fdt', assign it back to ms->fdt.
>
> Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org>
> Cc: qemu-...@nongnu.org
> Fixes: bf353ad55590f ("qmp/hmp, device_tree.c: introduce dumpdtb")
> Reported-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>i
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb...@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com>
> ---
> hw/arm/boot.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c
> index 50e5141116..54f6a3e0b3 100644
> --- a/hw/arm/boot.c
> +++ b/hw/arm/boot.c
> @@ -689,7 +689,10 @@ int arm_load_dtb(hwaddr addr, const struct arm_boot_info
> *binfo,
> qemu_register_reset_nosnapshotload(qemu_fdt_randomize_seeds,
> rom_ptr_for_as(as, addr, size));
>
> - g_free(fdt);
> + if (fdt != ms->fdt) {
> + g_free(ms->fdt);
> + ms->fdt = fdt;
> + }
>
> return size;
>
> --
Applied to target-arm.next, thanks.
-- PMM
