[Bug 1918302] [NEW] qemu-system-arm segfaults while servicing SYS_HEAPINFO

[Simon Tatham]

Public bug reported:

I compiled QEMU version 5.2.0 from source on Ubuntu 18.04, and tried to
use it to run the attached bare-metal Arm hello-world image, using the
command line

qemu-system-arm -M microbit -semihosting -nographic -device
loader,file=hello.hex

The result was that qemu-system-arm itself died of a segfault. Compiling
it for debugging, the location of the segfault was in target/arm/arm-
semi.c, in the case handler for the semihosting call
TARGET_SYS_HEAPINFO, on line 1020 which assigns to 'rambase':

            const struct arm_boot_info *info = env->boot_info;
            target_ulong rambase = info->loader_start;

and the problem seems to be that 'info', aka env->boot_info, is NULL in
this context.

** Affects: qemu
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

** Attachment added: "Image that triggers the failure, in ihex format"
   https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1918302/+attachment/5475149/+files/hello.hex

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Title:
  qemu-system-arm segfaults while servicing SYS_HEAPINFO

Status in QEMU:
  New

Bug description:
  I compiled QEMU version 5.2.0 from source on Ubuntu 18.04, and tried
  to use it to run the attached bare-metal Arm hello-world image, using
  the command line

  qemu-system-arm -M microbit -semihosting -nographic -device
  loader,file=hello.hex

  The result was that qemu-system-arm itself died of a segfault.
  Compiling it for debugging, the location of the segfault was in
  target/arm/arm-semi.c, in the case handler for the semihosting call
  TARGET_SYS_HEAPINFO, on line 1020 which assigns to 'rambase':

              const struct arm_boot_info *info = env->boot_info;
              target_ulong rambase = info->loader_start;

  and the problem seems to be that 'info', aka env->boot_info, is NULL
  in this context.

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