Check the return value of malloc() before dereferencing the returned pointer. Signed-off-by: Sören Brinkmann <soeren.brinkmann@gmail.com> --- v2: - add print statement to log the error --- src/pacman/upgrade.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/pacman/upgrade.c b/src/pacman/upgrade.c index 5416f6180b39..11da4dcb5e53 100644 --- a/src/pacman/upgrade.c +++ b/src/pacman/upgrade.c @@ -51,6 +51,10 @@ int pacman_upgrade(alpm_list_t *targets) */ for(i = targets; i; i = alpm_list_next(i)) { int *r = malloc(sizeof(int)); + if(r == NULL) { + pm_printf(ALPM_LOG_ERROR, _("memory exhausted\n")); + return 1; + } if(strstr(i->data, "://")) { char *str = alpm_fetch_pkgurl(config->handle, i->data); -- 1.9.0