Re: [PATCH for-5.0] hw/ppc/e500.c: Handle qemu_find_file() failure

[David Gibson]

On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 12:12:16PM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote:
> If qemu_find_file() doesn't find the BIOS it returns NULL; we were
> passing that unchecked through to load_elf(), which assumes a non-NULL
> pointer and may misbehave. In practice it fails with a weird message:
> 
>   $ qemu-system-ppc -M ppce500 -display none -kernel nonesuch
>   Bad address
>   qemu-system-ppc: could not load firmware '(null)'
> 
> Handle the failure case better:
> 
>   $ qemu-system-ppc -M ppce500 -display none -kernel nonesuch
>   qemu-system-ppc: could not find firmware/kernel file 'nonesuch'
> 
> Spotted by Coverity (CID 1238954).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>

Applied to ppc-for-5.0, thanks.

> ---
>  hw/ppc/e500.c | 4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/hw/ppc/e500.c b/hw/ppc/e500.c
> index 854cd3ac465..0d1f41197cf 100644
> --- a/hw/ppc/e500.c
> +++ b/hw/ppc/e500.c
> @@ -1047,6 +1047,10 @@ void ppce500_init(MachineState *machine)
>      }
>  
>      filename = qemu_find_file(QEMU_FILE_TYPE_BIOS, payload_name);
> +    if (!filename) {
> +        error_report("could not find firmware/kernel file '%s'", 
> payload_name);
> +        exit(1);
> +    }
>  
>      payload_size = load_elf(filename, NULL, NULL, NULL,
>                              &bios_entry, &loadaddr, NULL, NULL,

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