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From: Ali Lakhia <lakhia@alumni.utexas.net>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [patch] [trivial] fix NULL deref
Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 18:30:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTikJnzZjGd0LsBMm2TifpkAjvjJ+qDRkQ-qmz9dx@mail.gmail.com> (raw)

Please see patch to fix NULL dereference in strchr() function. Thanks.

-Ali

--- gdb-7.1/gdb/fork-child.c    2009-12-31 23:31:31.000000000 -0800
+++ gdb-7.1/gdb/fork-child.c 2010-09-16 10:17:25.000000000 -0700
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
 static void
 breakup_args (char *scratch, char **argv)
 {
-  char *cp = scratch;
+  char *cp = scratch, *tmp;

   for (;;)
     {
@@ -68,15 +68,16 @@
       *argv++ = cp;

       /* Scan for next arg separator.  */
-      cp = strchr (cp, ' ');
-      if (cp == NULL)
-       cp = strchr (cp, '\t');
-      if (cp == NULL)
-       cp = strchr (cp, '\n');
+      tmp = strchr (cp, ' ');
+      if (tmp == NULL)
+       tmp = strchr (cp, '\t');
+      if (tmp == NULL)
+       tmp = strchr (cp, '\n');

       /* No separators => end of string => break.  */
-      if (cp == NULL)
+      if (tmp == NULL)
        break;
+      cp = tmp;

       /* Replace the separator with a terminator.  */
       *cp++ = '\0';


             reply	other threads:[~2010-09-16 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-09-16 18:30 Ali Lakhia [this message]
2010-09-16 19:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2010-09-16 19:21   ` Ali Lakhia
2010-09-30 18:53     ` Ali Lakhia
2010-09-30 18:57       ` Michael Snyder
2010-09-30 19:01         ` Joel Brobecker
     [not found]         ` <AANLkTi=eko07y=CDdWpsr_7ZZvd=FHYjc-uo4v8SLd6E@mail.gmail.com>
2010-10-01 17:36           ` Michael Snyder

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