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 QMP/HMP FDT command 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.mayd...@linaro.org> Cc: qemu-...@nongnu.org Signed-off-by: Daniel Henrique Barboza <danielhb...@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..60bbfba37f 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); + /* Set ms->fdt for 'dumpdtb' QMP/HMP command */ + ms->fdt = fdt; return size; -- 2.37.2