[Skiboot] [PATCH] nvram: Fix a possible NULL pointer de-ref in nvram_query_eq()
Vaibhav Jain
vaibhav at linux.ibm.com
Sat Sep 8 16:51:22 AEST 2018
A fault will occur if 'value == NULL' is passed to nvram_query_eq() to
check if a given key doesn't exists in nvram partition. This patch
fixes this issue by ensuring that a NULL value for argument 'value'
never reaches the call to strcmp().
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Jain <vaibhav at linux.ibm.com>
---
core/nvram-format.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/core/nvram-format.c b/core/nvram-format.c
index 42c5cbbb..c52b443a 100644
--- a/core/nvram-format.c
+++ b/core/nvram-format.c
@@ -282,8 +282,8 @@ bool nvram_query_eq(const char *key, const char *value)
{
const char *s = nvram_query(key);
- if (!s)
- return false;
+ if (s == NULL || value == NULL)
+ return s == value;
return !strcmp(s, value);
}
--
2.17.1
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