Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] fix possible NULL pointer use in hw/ptimer.c

[Paul Brook]

>      s = (ptimer_state *)qemu_mallocz(sizeof(ptimer_state));
> +    if (!s)
> +        return NULL;

None of the callers bother to check the return value, And even if they did I 
don't think there's any point trying to gracefully handle OOM.  Just abort 
and be done with it.

I suggest guaranteeing that qemu_malloc will never return NULL, and removing 
the null checks from all the various users.

Paul