On Mon, Jan 12, 2026 at 06:59:00PM +0530, Avnish Chouhan wrote:
> Adding a check for invalid partition number. grub_strtoul() can fail

s/Adding/Add/
s/can/may/

> in several scenarios like invalid input, overflow, etc will result in

s/etc/etc./

> an invalid partition number which could lead to an undefined behavior.

s/will result in an invalid partition number which could lead to an undefined 
behavior.
 /Lack of proper check may lead to unexpected failures in the code further./

> Signed-off-by: Avnish Chouhan <[email protected]>
> ---
>  grub-core/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c | 17 +++++++++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c 
> b/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
> index 3b492dd..f8ae515 100644
> --- a/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
> +++ b/grub-core/kern/ieee1275/openfw.c
> @@ -512,7 +512,20 @@ grub_ieee1275_encode_devname (const char *path)
>      }
>    if (partition && partition[0])
>      {
> -      unsigned int partno = grub_strtoul (partition, 0, 0);
> +      char *endptr;
> +
> +      unsigned long partno = grub_strtoul (partition, &endptr, 0);
> +      grub_errno = GRUB_ERR_NONE;

I would do this

  unsigned long partno;
  char *endptr;

  partno = grub_strtoul (partition, &endptr, 0);
  grub_errno = GRUB_ERR_NONE;

> +      if (*endptr != '\0' || partno > 65535 ||
> +          (partno == 0 && ! grub_ieee1275_test_flag 
> (GRUB_IEEE1275_FLAG_0_BASED_PARTITIONS)))
> +        {
> +          grub_free (partition);
> +          grub_free (device);
> +          grub_free (encoding);
> +          grub_error (GRUB_ERR_BAD_ARGUMENT, N_("invalid partition number"));
> +          return NULL;
> +        }
>
>        *optr++ = ',';
>
> @@ -520,7 +533,7 @@ grub_ieee1275_encode_devname (const char *path)
>       /* GRUB partition 1 is OF partition 0.  */
>       partno++;
>
> -      grub_snprintf (optr, sizeof ("XXXXXXXXXXXX"), "%d", partno);
> +      grub_snprintf (optr, sizeof ("XXXXXXXXXXXX"), "%lu", partno);

Why is this change part of the patch? Even if it is valid it is logically
different thing. And I would use "%zu" instead...

Daniel

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