> On 26 Nov 2025, at 12:21 PM, Avnish Chouhan <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Adding a failure check in grub_calloc(). If grub_calloc fails,
> (e.g., due to memory allocation failure), it returns NULL. 
> Then, using grub_efiemu_elfsyms (which would be NULL)
> later will result in a null pointer dereference,
> and can cause an undefined behavior.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Avnish Chouhan <[email protected]>

Reviewed-by: Sudhakar Kuppusamy <[email protected]>

Thanks,
Sudhakar  
> ---
> grub-core/efiemu/loadcore.c | 3 +++
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/grub-core/efiemu/loadcore.c b/grub-core/efiemu/loadcore.c
> index 2b92462..5a6d244 100644
> --- a/grub-core/efiemu/loadcore.c
> +++ b/grub-core/efiemu/loadcore.c
> @@ -203,6 +203,9 @@ grub_efiemu_count_symbols (const Elf_Ehdr *e)
>   grub_efiemu_elfsyms = (struct grub_efiemu_elf_sym *)
>     grub_calloc (grub_efiemu_nelfsyms, sizeof (struct grub_efiemu_elf_sym));
> 
> +  if (grub_efiemu_elfsyms == NULL)
> +    return grub_error (GRUB_ERR_OUT_OF_MEMORY, N_("out of memory"));
> +
>   /* Relocators */
>   for (i = 0, s = (Elf_Shdr *) ((char *) e + e->e_shoff);
>        i < e->e_shnum;
> -- 
> 2.46.0
> 
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