Bug 1018323

Summary: strdup(3) segfaults when passing NULL to it
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Eryu Guan <eguan>
Component: glibcAssignee: Carlos O'Donell <codonell>
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: codonell, fweimer, jakub, law, pfrankli, schwab, spoyarek
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: 1018326 1018331 (view as bug list) Environment:
Last Closed: 2013-10-11 19:01:21 UTC Type: Bug
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Description Eryu Guan 2013-10-11 17:22:54 UTC 
Description of problem:
$ cat strduptest.c 
#include <string.h>

int main(void)
{
        strdup(NULL);
}

$ gcc -o strduptest strduptest.c
$ ./strduptest
Segmentation fault (core dumped)

And dmesg shows:
strduptest[2374]: segfault at 0 ip 0000003b97086711 sp 00007fff67a8cd98 error 4 in libc-2.17.so[3b97000000+1b6000]

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.17-18.fc19

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. see description
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Actual results:
segfault

Expected results:
strdup(3) should deal with NULL correctly

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2013-10-11 19:01:21 UTC 
Why do you think it is wrong?  NULL is not a pointer to a valid string, so it is your bug to call it with that.  See
http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/strdup.html