From: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2024 08:49:22 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: uuidgen: use xmalloc instead of malloc (#2714)
X-Git-Tag: v2.42-start~475^2
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0b14dcd755565f3e48f4c30011b3dfe783558393;p=thirdparty%2Futil-linux.git

uuidgen: use xmalloc instead of malloc (#2714)

Use xmalloc to make sure we don't reference a NULL pointer in error
case.

Signed-off-by: Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.com>
---

diff --git a/misc-utils/uuidgen.c b/misc-utils/uuidgen.c
index 27429223c..57769c1f4 100644
--- a/misc-utils/uuidgen.c
+++ b/misc-utils/uuidgen.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include "closestream.h"
 #include "strutils.h"
 #include "optutils.h"
+#include "xalloc.h"
 
 static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(void)
 {
@@ -57,7 +58,7 @@ badstring:
 		errtryhelp(EXIT_FAILURE);
 	}
 
-	value2 = malloc(*valuelen / 2 + 1);
+	value2 = xmalloc(*valuelen / 2 + 1);
 
 	for (x = n = 0; n < *valuelen; n++) {
 		c = value[n];