From: "Andreas Färber" <afaerber@suse.de>
To: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>,
qemu-devel@nongnu.org, dantesu@faraday-tech.com
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sysbus: Guard against NULL SysBusDevice::init fn
Date: Sun, 03 Mar 2013 14:19:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51334DDA.70903@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1362288656-29628-1-git-send-email-peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
Am 03.03.2013 06:30, schrieb Peter Crosthwaite:
> In certain cases a device model can init with neither a Device::realize or
> SysBusDevice::init (i.e. when its possible to do everything in Object::init).
> In this case, the device model should be able to leave both SysBusDevice::init
> and Device::realize as NULL. However what happens in this case in SysBus's
> default Device::realize function will try and call SysBusDevice::init without
> checking if it actually exists. A segfault ensues.
>
> Fix by guarding the call to SysBusDevice::init against a NULL pointer. If no
> pointer is defined return 0 without action.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Crosthwaite <peter.crosthwaite@xilinx.com>
While the patch is correct, I believe PMM already posted one using an
extra if two weeks ago as part of some series...
Andreas
> ---
> hw/sysbus.c | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/hw/sysbus.c b/hw/sysbus.c
> index 6d9d1df..72b309a 100644
> --- a/hw/sysbus.c
> +++ b/hw/sysbus.c
> @@ -118,7 +118,7 @@ static int sysbus_device_init(DeviceState *dev)
> SysBusDevice *sd = SYS_BUS_DEVICE(dev);
> SysBusDeviceClass *sbc = SYS_BUS_DEVICE_GET_CLASS(sd);
>
> - return sbc->init(sd);
> + return sbc->init ? sbc->init(sd) : 0;
> }
>
> DeviceState *sysbus_create_varargs(const char *name,
>
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2013-03-03 5:30 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] sysbus: Guard against NULL SysBusDevice::init fn Peter Crosthwaite
2013-03-03 13:19 ` Andreas Färber [this message]
2013-03-03 13:27 ` Peter Maydell
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