At this moment, arm_load_dtb() can free machine->fdt when
binfo->dtb_filename is NULL. If there's no 'dtb_filename', 'fdt' will be
retrieved by binfo->get_dtb(). If get_dtb() returns machine->fdt, as is
the case of machvirt_dtb() from hw/arm/virt.c, fdt now has a pointer to
machine->fdt. And, in that case, the existing g_free(fdt) at the end of
arm_load_dtb() will make machine->fdt point to an invalid memory region.
This is not an issue right now because there's no code that access
machine->fdt after arm_load_dtb(), but we're going to add a couple do
FDT HMP commands that will rely on machine->fdt being valid.
Instead of freeing 'fdt' at the end of arm_load_dtb(), assign it to
machine->fdt. This will allow the FDT of ARM machines that relies on
arm_load_dtb() to be accessed later on.
Since all ARM machines allocates the FDT only once, we don't need to
worry about leaking the existing FDT during a machine reset (which is
something that other machines have to look after, e.g. the ppc64 pSeries
machine).
Cc: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Cc: qemu-arm@nongnu.org
Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb413@gmail.com>
---
hw/arm/boot.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/hw/arm/boot.c b/hw/arm/boot.c
index ada2717f76..1d9c6047b1 100644
--- a/hw/arm/boot.c
+++ b/hw/arm/boot.c
@@ -684,7 +684,8 @@ int arm_load_dtb(hwaddr addr, const struct arm_boot_info
*binfo,
*/
rom_add_blob_fixed_as("dtb", fdt, size, addr, as);
- g_free(fdt);
+ /* Update ms->fdt pointer */
+ ms->fdt = fdt;