My problem is that kudzu segfaults if size of /etc/sysconfig/mouse is 0.

There is a function:
char *bufFromFd(int fd)
in kudzu.c, that does fstat and if the file size is 0, it returns a
null pointer. Null pointer is returned, because
read(fd, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)) > 0
is never true if file size is 0:

        fstat(fd,&sbuf);
        if (sbuf.st_size) {
                buf = malloc(sbuf.st_size + 1);
                memset(buf,'\0',sbuf.st_size + 1);
                read(fd, buf, sbuf.st_size);
                buf[sbuf.st_size] = '\0';
        } else {
                memset(tmpbuf,'\0', sizeof(tmpbuf));
                while (read(fd, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)) > 0) {
                        buf = realloc(buf, bytes + sizeof(tmpbuf));
                        memcpy(buf + bytes, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf));
                        bytes += sizeof(tmpbuf);
                        memset(tmpbuf, '\0', sizeof(tmpbuf));
                }
        }


I see no point in the while loop, because it is never run in case
sbuf.st_size is 0.

Everywhere where bufFromFd is used, the return values are not checked.
If it returns null pointer, it is usually dereferenced.
An example of null pointer dereference in hwconf.c:
   buf = bufFromFd(fd);
   tmp = strstr(buf,"DEVICE=");

One way would be to check (!buf) everywhere where bufFromFd is used.

A quick hack would be:

diff -u -p -r1.135 kudzu.c
--- kudzu.c     6 Jan 2005 17:37:27 -0000       1.135
+++ kudzu.c     24 Jan 2005 16:38:04 -0000
@@ -578,8 +578,6 @@ static int devCmp( const void *a, const
 char *bufFromFd(int fd) {
        struct stat sbuf;
        char *buf = NULL;
-       unsigned long bytes = 0;
-       char tmpbuf[16384];

        fstat(fd,&sbuf);
        if (sbuf.st_size) {
@@ -588,13 +586,7 @@ char *bufFromFd(int fd) {
                read(fd, buf, sbuf.st_size);
                buf[sbuf.st_size] = '\0';
        } else {
-               memset(tmpbuf,'\0', sizeof(tmpbuf));
-               while (read(fd, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf)) > 0) {
-                       buf = realloc(buf, bytes + sizeof(tmpbuf));
-                       memcpy(buf + bytes, tmpbuf, sizeof(tmpbuf));
-                       bytes += sizeof(tmpbuf);
-                       memset(tmpbuf, '\0', sizeof(tmpbuf));
-               }
+               buf = strdup("");
        }
        close(fd);
        return buf;


Steps to Reproduce:
rm -f /etc/sysconfig/mouse
touch /etc/sysconfig/mouse
kudzu -s

crashes here