If we go that far on the path of hot-removing a core and we find out that the core-id is invalid, then we have a serious bug.
Let's make it explicit with an assert() instead of dereferencing a NULL pointer. This fixes Coverity issue CID 1375404. Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org> --- hw/ppc/spapr.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr.c b/hw/ppc/spapr.c index 0980d733cd7a..1c5b814fc0bf 100644 --- a/hw/ppc/spapr.c +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr.c @@ -2715,6 +2715,7 @@ static void spapr_core_unplug(HotplugHandler *hotplug_dev, DeviceState *dev, CPUCore *cc = CPU_CORE(dev); CPUArchId *core_slot = spapr_find_cpu_slot(ms, cc->core_id, NULL); + assert(core_slot); core_slot->cpu = NULL; object_unparent(OBJECT(dev)); }