Report an error when memory < hpagesize in file_ram_alloc() so callers can handle the error.
If user adds a memory-backend-file object using object_add command, specifying a size that is less than huge page size, qemu will core dump with message: Bad ram offset fffffffffffff000 Aborted (core dumped) This patch fixes the problem. With this patch, qemu reports error message like: qemu-system-x86_64: -object memory-backend-file,mem-path=/hugepages,id=mem-file0,size=1M: memory size 0x100000 must be equal to or larger than huge page size 0x200000 Signed-off-by: Hu Tao <hu...@cn.fujitsu.com> --- exec.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/exec.c b/exec.c index 0362cd8..21af6c9 100644 --- a/exec.c +++ b/exec.c @@ -1059,9 +1059,9 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block, char *filename; char *sanitized_name; char *c; - void *area; + void *area = NULL; int fd; - unsigned long hpagesize; + uint64_t hpagesize; hpagesize = gethugepagesize(path); if (!hpagesize) { @@ -1069,7 +1069,10 @@ static void *file_ram_alloc(RAMBlock *block, } if (memory < hpagesize) { - return NULL; + error_setg(errp, "memory size 0x" RAM_ADDR_FMT " must be equal to " + "or larger than huge page size 0x%" PRIx64, + memory, hpagesize); + goto error; } if (kvm_enabled() && !kvm_has_sync_mmu()) { -- 1.9.3