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-rw-r--r--softmmu/vl.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/softmmu/vl.c b/softmmu/vl.c
index a331fb5321..796a77e234 100644
--- a/softmmu/vl.c
+++ b/softmmu/vl.c
@@ -4298,6 +4298,11 @@ void qemu_init(int argc, char **argv, char **envp)
backend = object_resolve_path_type(current_machine->ram_memdev_id,
TYPE_MEMORY_BACKEND, NULL);
+ if (!backend) {
+ error_report("Memory backend '%s' not found",
+ current_machine->ram_memdev_id);
+ exit(EXIT_FAILURE);
+ }
backend_size = object_property_get_uint(backend, "size", &error_abort);
if (have_custom_ram_size && backend_size != ram_size) {
error_report("Size specified by -m option must match size of "