Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v3] qemu crashes when a negative number used for 'maxcpus'

[Bharata B Rao <bharata.rao@gmail.com>]

Seeteena,

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 7:23 PM, Seeteena Thoufeek <
s1seetee@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> ---Steps to Reproduce---
>
> When passed a negative number to 'maxcpus' parameter, Qemu aborts
> with a core dump.
>
> Run the following command with maxcpus argument as negative number
>
> ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 --nographic -vga none -machine
> pseries,accel=kvm,kvm-type=HV -m size=200g -device virtio-blk-pci,
> drive=rootdisk -drive file=/home/images/pegas-1.0-ppc64le.qcow2,
> if=none,cache=none,id=rootdisk,format=qcow2 -monitor telnet
> :127.0.0.1:1234,server,nowait -net nic,model=virtio -net
> user -redir tcp:2000::22 -device nec-usb-xhci -smp 8,cores=1,
> threads=1,maxcpus=-12
>
> (process:12149): GLib-ERROR **: gmem.c:130: failed to allocate
>  18446744073709550568 bytes
>
> Trace/breakpoint trap
>
> Reported-by: R.Nageswara Sastry <rnsastry@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Seeteena Thoufeek <s1seetee@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Bharata B Rao <bharata@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>

In the bugzilla, I was only suggesting to post the fix upstream and it
doesn't mean a Reviewed-by.  You might want to remove this in your next
version.

Regards,
Bharata.