Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] hw/arm/bcm283x: Fix crash with device_add bcm2837 on unsupported machines

[Thomas Huth]

On 09.07.2018 23:31, Eduardo Habkost wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 11:03:00PM +0200, Thomas Huth wrote:
>> When trying to "device_add bcm2837" on a machine that is not suitable for
>> this device, you can quickly crash QEMU afterwards, e.g. with "info qtree":
>>
>> echo "{'execute':'qmp_capabilities'} {'execute':'device_add', " \
>>  "'arguments':{'driver':'bcm2837'}} {'execute': 'human-monitor-command', " \
>>  "'arguments': {'command-line': 'info qtree'}}" | \
>>  aarch64-softmmu/qemu-system-aarch64 -M integratorcp,accel=qtest -S -qmp 
>> stdio
> 
> Interesting, how did you find this bug?

I was running some tests with an enhanced version of this patch applied:

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-03/msg05033.html

 Thomas