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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH for v1.6] pc: Fix initialization of the ram_memory variable.



Il 16/08/2013 16:46, Anthony PERARD ha scritto:
In some cases (Xen), it will not be initialized before to be used. This
leads to segv.

Signed-off-by: Anthony PERARD <anthony.perard@xxxxxxxxxx>

Tested-by: Fabio Fantoni <fabio.fantoni@xxxxxxx>
This patch have solved the critical regression of all hvm domUs that prevented domUs starting with qemu 1.6.


---

It works with this simple initialization to NULL, but would it be
necessary (or better) to assign a proper value to this variables ?
---
  hw/i386/pc_piix.c | 2 +-
  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
index 6e1e654..596d433 100644
--- a/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
+++ b/hw/i386/pc_piix.c
@@ -86,7 +86,7 @@ static void pc_init1(MemoryRegion *system_memory,
      BusState *idebus[MAX_IDE_BUS];
      ISADevice *rtc_state;
      ISADevice *floppy;
-    MemoryRegion *ram_memory;
+    MemoryRegion *ram_memory = NULL;
      MemoryRegion *pci_memory;
      MemoryRegion *rom_memory;
      DeviceState *icc_bridge;


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