On Fri, Feb 09, 2018 at 01:28:39AM -0600, Jeff Smith wrote:
> If the path passed to open_restricted() is null, it results in a
> segfault when passing it to strneq.

weird, but imo this really needs to (also?) be fixed in libinput, calling
open for a NULL path indicates a libinput bug. We should never call
open_restricted for something that's NULL, it stops us from having decent
error messages.

Cheers,
   Peter

> 
> Return an error code from open_restricted() when path is null.  This
> leaves it up to the calling function to provide an error message.
> 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1536633
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539046
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1539783
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1540662
> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104278
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Smith <whydo...@gmail.com>
> ---
>  src/xf86libinput.c | 3 +++
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/src/xf86libinput.c b/src/xf86libinput.c
> index 5727040..67577f4 100644
> --- a/src/xf86libinput.c
> +++ b/src/xf86libinput.c
> @@ -2208,6 +2208,9 @@ open_restricted(const char *path, int flags, void *data)
>       InputInfoPtr pInfo;
>       int fd = -1;
>  
> +     if (path == NULL)
> +             return -EFAULT;
> +
>       /* Special handling for sysfs files (used for pad LEDs) */
>       if (strneq(path, "/sys/", 5)) {
>               fd = open(path, flags);
> -- 
> 2.14.3
 
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