the following patch was just integrated into master: commit 25fe1d16443b4adbd5ac9e0ce70fa75eaacece30 Author: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org> Date: Mon Apr 25 12:25:30 2016 +0200 qemu-0.15.x/serialice-com: Error on memory allocation failure Exit on memory allocation error. Change-Id: Ia72b12e974f84d157fcb64fd5c223d848b31521a Signed-off-by: Patrick Rudolph <siro@das-labor.org> Reviewed-on: https://review.coreboot.org/14511 Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins) Reviewed-by: Kyösti Mälkki <kyosti.malkki@gmail.com> See https://review.coreboot.org/14511 for details. -gerrit