Fix GError handling

Several users have reported segfaults when starting up profanity which
has OMEMO support, but OMEMO is not set up yet.

@StefanKropp has been able to reproduce this and tracked it down to
`_load_identity()` calling `omemo_known_devices_keyfile_save()`.
The latter then calls `save_keyfile()` which calls
`g_key_file_save_to_file()`. This can then fail if one of the first two
strings is NULL and won't set the `error` on return. In its error handling
`save_keyfile()` unconditionally dereferences `error` which leads to the
segfault.

Fix this and also go through the entire codebase and verify that the usage
of `GError` is done correctly.

Signed-off-by: Steffen Jaeckel <s@jaeckel.eu>
This commit is contained in:
Steffen Jaeckel
2025-10-09 10:23:00 +02:00
parent 5da079bbb2
commit 48ac88de08
15 changed files with 57 additions and 66 deletions

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@@ -161,20 +161,27 @@ auto_close_FILE(FILE** fd)
log_error(g_strerror(errno));
}
void
auto_free_gerror(GError** err)
{
if (err == NULL)
return;
PROF_GERROR_FREE(*err);
}
static gboolean
_load_keyfile(prof_keyfile_t* keyfile)
{
GError* error = NULL;
auto_gerror GError* error = NULL;
keyfile->keyfile = g_key_file_new();
if (g_key_file_load_from_file(keyfile->keyfile, keyfile->filename, G_KEY_FILE_KEEP_COMMENTS | G_KEY_FILE_KEEP_TRANSLATIONS, &error)) {
return TRUE;
} else if (error->code != G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT) {
} else if (error && error->code != G_FILE_ERROR_NOENT) {
log_warning("[Keyfile] error loading %s: %s", keyfile->filename, error->message);
g_error_free(error);
} else {
log_warning("[Keyfile] no such file: %s", keyfile->filename);
g_error_free(error);
}
return FALSE;
}
@@ -212,10 +219,9 @@ load_custom_keyfile(prof_keyfile_t* keyfile, gchar* filename)
gboolean
save_keyfile(prof_keyfile_t* keyfile)
{
GError* error = NULL;
auto_gerror GError* error = NULL;
if (!g_key_file_save_to_file(keyfile->keyfile, keyfile->filename, &error)) {
log_error("[Keyfile]: saving file %s failed! %s", keyfile->filename, error->message);
g_error_free(error);
log_error("[Keyfile]: saving file %s failed! %s", STR_MAYBE_NULL(keyfile->filename), PROF_GERROR_MESSAGE(error));
return FALSE;
}
g_chmod(keyfile->filename, S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR);
@@ -254,11 +260,8 @@ copy_file(const char* const sourcepath, const char* const targetpath, const gboo
{
GFile* source = g_file_new_for_path(sourcepath);
GFile* dest = g_file_new_for_path(targetpath);
GError* error = NULL;
GFileCopyFlags flags = overwrite_existing ? G_FILE_COPY_OVERWRITE : G_FILE_COPY_NONE;
gboolean success = g_file_copy(source, dest, flags, NULL, NULL, NULL, &error);
if (error != NULL)
g_error_free(error);
gboolean success = g_file_copy(source, dest, flags, NULL, NULL, NULL, NULL);
g_object_unref(source);
g_object_unref(dest);
return success;
@@ -634,7 +637,7 @@ get_mentions(gboolean whole_word, gboolean case_sensitive, const char* const mes
gboolean
call_external(gchar** argv)
{
GError* spawn_error;
auto_gerror GError* spawn_error = NULL;
gboolean is_successful;
GSpawnFlags flags = G_SPAWN_SEARCH_PATH | G_SPAWN_STDOUT_TO_DEV_NULL | G_SPAWN_STDERR_TO_DEV_NULL;
@@ -647,9 +650,7 @@ call_external(gchar** argv)
&spawn_error);
if (!is_successful) {
auto_gchar gchar* cmd = g_strjoinv(" ", argv);
log_error("Spawning '%s' failed with error '%s'", cmd, spawn_error ? spawn_error->message : "Unknown, spawn_error is NULL");
g_error_free(spawn_error);
log_error("Spawning '%s' failed with error '%s'", cmd, PROF_GERROR_MESSAGE(spawn_error));
}
return is_successful;