> On 19 Nov 2025, at 5:41 PM, Daniel Kiper <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Nov 19, 2025 at 03:23:53PM +0530, Sudhakar Kuppusamy wrote:
>>> On 19 Nov 2025, at 2:26 PM, Avnish Chouhan <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On 2025-11-18 22:31, [email protected] wrote:
>>>> Message: 2
>>>> Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2025 19:55:39 +0530
>>>> From: Sudhakar Kuppusamy <[email protected]>
>>>> To: [email protected]
>>>> Cc: Sudhakar Kuppusamy <[email protected]>, [email protected],
>>>> [email protected], [email protected]
>>>> Subject: [PATCH] linux/ofpath: Add missing strdup failure checks
>>>> Message-ID: <[email protected]>
>>>> Segmentation faults or undefined behaviour may result from a null pointer
>>>> dereference in strip_trailing_digits and grub_util_devname_to_ofpath if
>>>> strdup() fails. Therefore, I added a NULL check to fix this.
>>>> Signed-off-by: Sudhakar Kuppusamy <[email protected]>
>>>> ---
>>>> grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c | 11 +++++++++++
>>>> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>>>> diff --git a/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c 
>>>> b/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c
>>>> index a6153d359..ade5220db 100644
>>>> --- a/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c
>>>> +++ b/grub-core/osdep/linux/ofpath.c
>>>> @@ -695,6 +695,9 @@ strip_trailing_digits (const char *p)
>>>>  char *new, *end;
>>>>  new = strdup (p);
>>>> +  if (new == NULL)
>>>> +    return NULL;
>>>> +
>>>>  end = new + strlen(new) - 1;
>>>>  while (end >= new)
>>>>    {
>>>> @@ -715,7 +718,15 @@ grub_util_devname_to_ofpath (const char *sys_devname)
>>>>  device = get_basename (name_buf);
>>>>  devnode = strip_trailing_digits (name_buf);
>>>> +  if (devnode == NULL)
>>> 
>>> Hi Sudhakar,
>>> 
>>> This change will lead to a memory leak. You need to add "free (name_buf);" 
>>> here before retuning!
>>> 
>>>> +    return NULL;
>>>> +
>>>>  devicenode = strip_trailing_digits (device);
>>>> +  if (devicenode == NULL)
>>>> +    {
>>>> +      free (devnode);
>>> 
>>> And here too, "free (name_buf);"......
>>> 
>> 
>> Thank you Avnish for the review. I will fix it on v1.
> 
> This patch is in. So, please provide a fix on top of it.
> 
> Daniel

Hi Daniel,

I could not see this patch in https://cgit.git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/grub.git/

Thanks,
Sudhakar
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