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

[Fabio Fantoni]

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 <address@hidden>

Tested-by: Fabio Fantoni <address@hidden>
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;