Some code in the block layer makes potentially huge allocations. Failure is not completely unexpected there, so avoid aborting qemu and handle out-of-memory situations gracefully.
This patch addresses the allocations in the vmdk block driver. Signed-off-by: Kevin Wolf <kw...@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Stefan Hajnoczi <stefa...@redhat.com> --- block/vmdk.c | 12 ++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/block/vmdk.c b/block/vmdk.c index 2b38f61..fd81b1f 100644 --- a/block/vmdk.c +++ b/block/vmdk.c @@ -448,7 +448,11 @@ static int vmdk_init_tables(BlockDriverState *bs, VmdkExtent *extent, /* read the L1 table */ l1_size = extent->l1_size * sizeof(uint32_t); - extent->l1_table = g_malloc(l1_size); + extent->l1_table = g_try_malloc(l1_size); + if (l1_size && extent->l1_table == NULL) { + return -ENOMEM; + } + ret = bdrv_pread(extent->file, extent->l1_table_offset, extent->l1_table, @@ -464,7 +468,11 @@ static int vmdk_init_tables(BlockDriverState *bs, VmdkExtent *extent, } if (extent->l1_backup_table_offset) { - extent->l1_backup_table = g_malloc(l1_size); + extent->l1_backup_table = g_try_malloc(l1_size); + if (l1_size && extent->l1_backup_table == NULL) { + ret = -ENOMEM; + goto fail_l1; + } ret = bdrv_pread(extent->file, extent->l1_backup_table_offset, extent->l1_backup_table, -- 1.8.3.1