Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/2] ipmi: don't try to open a NULL filename

[Cédric Le Goater]

On 04/25/2017 03:31 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> On 25 April 2017 at 07:51, Cédric Le Goater <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Currenlty, the code relies on the fact that open() handles NULL
>> filenames but that can cause an error with new clang:
>>
>>   hw/core/loader.c:67:15: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 1,
>>   which is declared to never be null
> 
> This isn't "new clang", incidentally, it's just clang with the
> runtime-static-analysis enabled, which causes warnings to be
> printed at runtime for undefined behaviours. You can enable
> this by passing configure --extra-cflags=-fsanitize=undefined .
> (I have clang 3.8.0 here.)

OK. So I have now reproduced the issue on a f24. That made be 
realize that the IPMI tests check for the arch they are being 
run on and that more changes are required for them to run on 
ppc64. 

We can drop patch 1/2. Tell me if you want a resend.

Thanks,

C.