qemu_opts_parse() can always return NULL, even if the QemuOptsList.desc in question would be trivial to satisfy (eg. because it's empty). For example:
qemu_opts_parse() opts_parse() qemu_opts_create() id_wellformed() In practice: $ .../qemu-system-x86_64 -acpitable id=3 qemu-system-x86_64: -acpitable id=3: Parameter 'id' expects an identifier ** ERROR:vl.c:3491:main: assertion failed: (opts != NULL) Aborted (core dumped) $ .../qemu-system-x86_64 -smbios id=3 qemu-system-x86_64: -smbios id=3: Parameter 'id' expects an identifier Segmentation fault (core dumped) I checked all qemu_opts_parse() invocations (and all drive_def() invocations too, because it blindly forwards the former's retval). Only the two above examples look problematic. Signed-off-by: Laszlo Ersek <ler...@redhat.com> --- vl.c | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/vl.c b/vl.c index 8d5d874..1863fdd 100644 --- a/vl.c +++ b/vl.c @@ -3488,11 +3488,16 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv, char **envp) } case QEMU_OPTION_acpitable: opts = qemu_opts_parse(qemu_find_opts("acpi"), optarg, 1); - g_assert(opts != NULL); + if (!opts) { + exit(1); + } do_acpitable_option(opts); break; case QEMU_OPTION_smbios: opts = qemu_opts_parse(qemu_find_opts("smbios"), optarg, 0); + if (!opts) { + exit(1); + } do_smbios_option(opts); break; case QEMU_OPTION_enable_kvm: -- 1.8.3.1