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From ea8c7b3efce4c1762411e073893e948de5d552d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 16:04:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] storage: check that the string isn't empty before splitting

If the string was non-NULL but empty (str="\0"), the following \0 assignment
would write to str[-1] and thus cause memory corruption.

On PPC and MIPS, this was causing crashes in glibc.

Signed-off-by: Ross Burton <ross.burton@intel.com>
Upstream-Status: Submitted
 
---
 src/storage.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/storage.c b/src/storage.c
index 47bd0cb..20766a3 100644
--- a/src/storage.c
+++ b/src/storage.c
@@ -212,7 +212,11 @@ gchar **connman_storage_get_services()
 	closedir(dir);
 
 	str = g_string_free(result, FALSE);
-	if (str) {
+	if (str && str[0] != '\0') {
+		/*
+		 * Remove the trailing separator so that services doesn't end up
+		 * with an empty element.
+		 */
 		str[strlen(str) - 1] = '\0';
 		services = g_strsplit(str, "/", -1);
 	}
-- 
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