[PATCH v8 03/16] hw/arm: do not free machine->fdt in arm_load_dtb()

[PATCH v8 03/16] hw/arm: do not free machine->fdt in arm_load_dtb()

[Daniel Henrique Barboza]

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.

This is not an issue right now because there's no code that access
machine->fdt after arm_load_dtb(), but we're going to add a QMP/HMP
FDT command that will rely on machine->fdt being valid.

Instead of freeing 'fdt' at the end of arm_load_dtb(), assign it to
machine->fdt. This will allow the FDT of ARM machines that relies on
arm_load_dtb() to be accessed later on.

Since all ARM machines allocates the FDT only once, we don't need to
worry about leaking the existing FDT during a machine reset (which is
something that other machines have to look after, e.g. the ppc64 pSeries
machine).

Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
---
 hw/arm/boot.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c
index ada2717f76..60bbfba37f 100644
--- a/hw/arm/boot.c
+++ b/hw/arm/boot.c
@@ -684,7 +684,8 @@ int arm_load_dtb(hwaddr addr, const struct arm_boot_info *binfo,
      */
     rom_add_blob_fixed_as("dtb", fdt, size, addr, as);
 
-    g_free(fdt);
+    /* Set ms->fdt for 'dumpdtb' QMP/HMP command */
+    ms->fdt = fdt;
 
     return size;
 
-- 
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