If you build with clang-3.8's undefined behaviour sanitizer it reveals that hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c is calling memset() with a NULL pointer:
$ (cd build/clang; UBSAN_OPTIONS=print_stacktrace=1 QTEST_QEMU_BINARY=ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64 QTEST_QEMU_IMG=qemu-img MALLOC_PERTURB_=${MALLOC_PERTURB_:-$((RANDOM % 255 + 1))} gtester -k --verbose -m=quick tests/endianness-test) TEST: tests/endianness-test... (pid=9726) /ppc64/endianness/mac99: OK /ppc64/endianness/pseries: /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c:388:12: runtime error: null pointer passed as argument 1, which is declared to never be null /usr/include/string.h:62:62: note: nonnull attribute specified here #0 0x562e11e5a793 in spapr_tce_reset /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/ppc/spapr_iommu.c:388:5 #1 0x562e11e69259 in spapr_phb_children_reset /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c:1487:9 #2 0x562e12712cbf in do_object_child_foreach /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/qom/object.c:837:19 #3 0x562e11e67b1b in spapr_phb_reset /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/ppc/spapr_pci.c:1519:5 #4 0x562e12210405 in qdev_reset_one /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/core/qdev.c:295:5 #5 0x562e122103af in qdev_walk_children /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/core/qdev.c:610:15 #6 0x562e1221c808 in qbus_walk_children /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/core/bus.c:59:15 #7 0x562e1208d362 in qemu_devices_reset /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/vl.c:1712:9 #8 0x562e11e460ed in ppc_spapr_reset /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/hw/ppc/spapr.c:1198:5 #9 0x562e1208d3fb in qemu_system_reset /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/vl.c:1725:9 #10 0x562e12093479 in main /home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/vl.c:4574:5 #11 0x7f61a4a1282f in __libc_start_main /build/glibc-GKVZIf/glibc-2.23/csu/../csu/libc-start.c:291 #12 0x562e11be80b8 in _start (/home/petmay01/linaro/qemu-from-laptop/qemu/build/clang/ppc64-softmmu/qemu-system-ppc64+0xcbc0b8) OK Presumably the size is also 0 in this case or it would segfault, but this is UB. Would somebody like to take a look at fixing it? thanks -- PMM