Suggested-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@amsat.org>
---
 hw/char/serial.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/hw/char/serial.c b/hw/char/serial.c
index e4c38dc250..57e89468b4 100644
--- a/hw/char/serial.c
+++ b/hw/char/serial.c
@@ -1050,7 +1050,7 @@ SerialState *serial_mm_init(MemoryRegion *address_space,
     s->it_shift = it_shift;
     s->irq = irq;
     s->baudbase = baudbase;
-    qemu_chr_fe_init(&s->chr, chr, &error_abort);
+    qemu_chr_fe_init(&s->chr, serial_chr_nonnull(chr), &error_abort);
 
     serial_realize_core(s, &error_fatal);
     vmstate_register(NULL, base, &vmstate_serial, s);
-- 
2.14.1