This prints a message and exits if the e500 BIOS firmware can't be found, to avoid dereferencing a null pointer.
Signed-off-by: Nia Alarie <nia.ala...@gmail.com> --- hw/ppc/e500.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/hw/ppc/e500.c b/hw/ppc/e500.c index a40d3ec3e3..6ce03d6ff4 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/e500.c +++ b/hw/ppc/e500.c @@ -1005,6 +1005,10 @@ void ppce500_init(MachineState *machine, PPCE500Params *params) } } filename = qemu_find_file(QEMU_FILE_TYPE_BIOS, bios_name); + if (!filename) { + error_report("Could not find firmware '%s'", bios_name); + exit(1); + } bios_size = load_elf(filename, NULL, NULL, &bios_entry, &loadaddr, NULL, 1, PPC_ELF_MACHINE, 0, 0); -- 2.16.2