From 77c8f60547decefca8f2d0c905d9c708c38ee8ff Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lasse Collin Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024 21:41:11 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] xz: Avoid arithmetic on a null pointer It's undefined behavior. The result wasn't ever used as it occurred in the last iteration of a loop. Clang 17 with -fsanitize=address,undefined: $ src/xz/xz --block-list=123 src/xz/args.c:164:12: runtime error: applying non-zero offset 1 to null pointer Fixes: 88ccf47205d7f3aa314d358c72ef214f10f68b43 Co-authored-by: Sam James --- src/xz/args.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/src/xz/args.c b/src/xz/args.c index 9100d8d1..b3ad54ea 100644 --- a/src/xz/args.c +++ b/src/xz/args.c @@ -155,7 +155,13 @@ parse_block_list(const char *str_const) } } - str = p + 1; + // Be standards compliant: p + 1 is undefined behavior + // if p == NULL. That occurs on the last iteration of + // the loop when we won't care about the value of str + // anymore anyway. That is, this is done conditionally + // solely for standard conformance reasons. + if (p != NULL) + str = p + 1; } // Terminate the array.