bus: handle serialization of NULL strings

[elogind.git] / src / libsystemd-bus / bus-message.c

diff --git a/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-message.c b/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-message.c
index e68b43bbae8ef1a21ae6b6cbfdb025fb4a05ff05..437f6dfd49d89840e1fbe716d7409eb0e7afeac0 100644 (file)
--- a/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-message.c
+++ b/src/libsystemd-bus/bus-message.c
@@ -1347,14 +1347,29 @@ int message_append_basic(sd_bus_message *m, char type, const void *p, const void
         switch (type) {
 
         case SD_BUS_TYPE_STRING:
+                /* To make things easy we'll serialize a NULL string
+                 * into the empty string */
+                p = strempty(p);
+
+                /* Fall through... */
         case SD_BUS_TYPE_OBJECT_PATH:
 
+                if (!p) {
+                        r = -EINVAL;
+                        goto fail;
+                }
+
                 align = 4;
                 sz = 4 + strlen(p) + 1;
                 break;
 
         case SD_BUS_TYPE_SIGNATURE:
 
+                if (!p) {
+                        r = -EINVAL;
+                        goto fail;
+                }
+
                 align = 1;
                 sz = 1 + strlen(p) + 1;
                 break;