File 002-ldmtool-fix-NULL-pointer-dereference.patch of Package ldmtool
Subject: ldmtool: fix NULL pointer dereference
From: Vincent Mailhol mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr Tue Jun 20 17:00:24 2023 +0900
Date: Tue Jun 20 10:21:16 2023 +0100:
Git: 674da9bd4f482cd5e07e3f8f4b648d366b2c23bb
If /sys/block can not be opened, get_devices() returns NULL.
cmdline() does not check this result and below code snippet:
scanned = get_devices();
devices = (gchar **) scanned->data;
results in a segmentation fault.
Add a check on scanned.
Relevant logs:
Unable to open /sys/block: No such file or directory
[ 0.777352] ldmtool[164]: segfault at 0 ip 0000563a225cd6a5 sp 00007ffe54965a60 error 4 in ldmtool[563a225cb000+3000]
[ 0.778278] Code: 18 64 48 33 1c 25 28 00 00 00 75 5e 48 83 c4 28 5b 5d 41 5c 41 5d 41 5e 41 5f c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 e8 db fd ff ff <4c> 8b 20 48 89 44 24 08 4c 89 e7 e8 0b e1 ff ff 45 31 c0 4c 89 e1
Fixes: 25d9635e4ee5 ("Add ldmtool")
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Reviewed-by: Laszlo Ersek <lersek@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@redhat.com>
See: https://listman.redhat.com/archives/libguestfs/2023-June/031841.html
diff --git a/src/ldmtool.c b/src/ldmtool.c
index 6957c1a..dbe2c8c 100644
--- a/src/ldmtool.c
+++ b/src/ldmtool.c
@@ -746,6 +746,8 @@ cmdline(LDM * const ldm, gchar **devices,
GArray * scanned = NULL;
if (!devices) {
scanned = get_devices();
+ if (!scanned)
+ return FALSE;
devices = (gchar **) scanned->data;
}