gdbstub.c: fix GDB connection segfault caused by empty machines

This patch is to fix the segmentation fault caused by attaching
GDB to a QEMU instance initialized with "-M none" option.

The bug can be reproduced by

> ./qemu-system-x86_64 -M none -nographic -S -s

and attach a GDB to it by

> gdb -ex 'target remote :1234

The segmentation fault was originally caused by trying to read
the information about CPU when communicating with GDB. However,
it's impossible for any control flow to exist on an empty machine,
nor can CPU's be hot plugged to an empty machine later by QOM
commands. So I think simply disabling GDB connections on empty
machines makes sense.

Signed-off-by: Ziyue Yang <skiver.cloud.yzy@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Huth <thuth@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>

diff --git a/gdbstub.c b/gdbstub.c
index de9b62b8f8628cbb731135cd878b2429b924f2d1..27e092378192e60630be1e08f39853f40321b959 100644 (file)
--- a/gdbstub.c
+++ b/gdbstub.c
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
  */
 #include "qemu/osdep.h"
 #include "qapi/error.h"
+#include "qemu/error-report.h"
 #include "qemu/cutils.h"
 #include "cpu.h"
 #ifdef CONFIG_USER_ONLY
@@ -1732,6 +1733,12 @@ int gdbserver_start(const char *device)
     CharDriverState *mon_chr;
     ChardevCommon common = { 0 };
 
+    if (!first_cpu) {
+        error_report("gdbstub: meaningless to attach gdb to a "
+                     "machine without any CPU.");
+        return -1;
+    }
+
     if (!device)
         return -1;
     if (strcmp(device, "none") != 0) {