All the functions in char-fe.c handle the CharBackend
having a NULL Chardev pointer, which means that the
backend exists but is not connected to anything. The
exception is qemu_chr_fe_init(), which will crash if
passed a NULL Chardev pointer argument. This can happen
for various boards if they're started with 'nodefaults':
arm-softmmu/qemu-system-arm -S -nodefaults -M cubieboard
riscv32-softmmu/qemu-system-riscv32 -nodefaults -M sifive_e
Make qemu_chr_fe_init() accept a NULL chardev. This allows
UART models to handle NULL chardev properties without
generally needing to special case them or to manually
create a NullChardev.
Reported-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Message-Id: <20180323152948.27048-1-peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
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