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diff --git a/qemu-option.c b/qemu-option.c
index f88486580c..7f70d0f5fb 100644
--- a/qemu-option.c
+++ b/qemu-option.c
@@ -673,11 +673,31 @@ QemuOpts *qemu_opts_find(QemuOptsList *list, const char *id)
return NULL;
}
+static int id_wellformed(const char *id)
+{
+ int i;
+
+ if (!qemu_isalpha(id[0])) {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ for (i = 1; id[i]; i++) {
+ if (!qemu_isalnum(id[i]) && !strchr("-._", id[i])) {
+ return 0;
+ }
+ }
+ return 1;
+}
+
QemuOpts *qemu_opts_create(QemuOptsList *list, const char *id, int fail_if_exists)
{
QemuOpts *opts = NULL;
if (id) {
+ if (!id_wellformed(id)) {
+ qerror_report(QERR_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE, "id", "an identifier");
+ error_printf_unless_qmp("Identifiers consist of letters, digits, '-', '.', '_', starting with a letter.\n");
+ return NULL;
+ }
opts = qemu_opts_find(list, id);
if (opts != NULL) {
if (fail_if_exists) {