From 38f71349c7c4969bc14da4da1c70b8cc4078d596 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zhenzhong Duan Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2021 16:47:41 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] vl: Fix an assert failure in error path Based on the description of error_setg(), the local variable err in qemu_maybe_daemonize() should be initialized to NULL. Without fix, the uninitialized *errp triggers assert failure which doesn't show much valuable information. Before the fix: qemu-system-x86_64: ../util/error.c:59: error_setv: Assertion `*errp == NULL' failed. After fix: qemu-system-x86_64: cannot create PID file: Cannot open pid file: Permission denied Signed-off-by: Zhenzhong Duan Message-Id: <20210610084741.456260-1-zhenzhong.duan@intel.com> Cc: qemu-stable@nongnu.org Fixes: 0546c0609c ("vl: split various early command line options to a separate function", 2020-12-10) Signed-off-by: Paolo Bonzini --- softmmu/vl.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c index 326c1e908008..feb4d201f30f 100644 --- a/softmmu/vl.c +++ b/softmmu/vl.c @@ -2522,7 +2522,7 @@ static void qemu_process_help_options(void) static void qemu_maybe_daemonize(const char *pid_file) { - Error *err; + Error *err = NULL; os_daemonize(); rcu_disable_atfork();