Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH RFC 4/4] memory-backend-file: error out if failed to allocate memory

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

Il 14/06/2014 06:48, Hu Tao ha scritto:
> If user adds a memory-backend-file object using object_add command,
> specifying a non-existing directory for property mem-path, qemu
> will core dump with message:
>
>   /nonexistingdir: No such file or directory
>   Bad ram offset fffffffffffff000
>   Aborted (core dumped)
>
> This patch fixes this problem.
>
> Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hutao@cn.fujitsu.com>
> ---
>  backends/hostmem-file.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/backends/hostmem-file.c b/backends/hostmem-file.c
> index 5179994..70172d1 100644
> --- a/backends/hostmem-file.c
> +++ b/backends/hostmem-file.c
> @@ -55,6 +55,9 @@ file_backend_memory_alloc(HostMemoryBackend *backend, Error **errp)
>                                   object_get_canonical_path(OBJECT(backend)),
>                                   backend->size, fb->share,
>                                   fb->mem_path, errp);
> +        if (backend->mr.ram_addr == -1) {
> +            error_setg(errp, "failed to allocate memory");
> +        }

qemu_ram_alloc_from_file is where this error_setg should be added instead.

Paolo

>      }
>  #endif
>  }
>