Re: [libvirt] [PATCH] util: Fix leak in virStringTrimOptionalNewline

Do not access any data if strlen() == 0. Signed-off-by: Martin Kletzander <mkletzan(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virstring.c | 10 +++++++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virstring.c b/src/util/virstring.c index eac4774b533e..b2ebce27ff49 100644 --- a/src/util/virstring.c +++ b/src/util/virstring.c @@ -1394,9 +1394,13 @@ virStringEncodeBase64(const uint8_t *buf, size_t buflen) */ void virStringTrimOptionalNewline(char *str) { - char *tmp = str + strlen(str) - 1; - if (*tmp == '\n') - *tmp = '\0'; + size_t len = strlen(str); + + if (!len) + return; + + if (str[len - 1] == '\n') + str[len - 1] = '\0'; }