From f8c48cbedce59c02c359c9a35599d7568c8b98ce Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 20:27:21 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] kern/mips/arc/init: Add missing grub_strdup() failure check

If grub_strdup() fails, it returns NULL and passing NULL further down to
the code can lead to segmentation fault or an undefined behavior.

Signed-off-by: Avnish Chouhan <avnish@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Sudhakar Kuppusamy <sudhakar@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Kiper <daniel.kiper@oracle.com>
---
 grub-core/kern/mips/arc/init.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/grub-core/kern/mips/arc/init.c b/grub-core/kern/mips/arc/init.c
index 2ed3ff319..2b76988c7 100644
--- a/grub-core/kern/mips/arc/init.c
+++ b/grub-core/kern/mips/arc/init.c
@@ -403,6 +403,9 @@ grub_machine_get_bootlocation (char **device, char **path)
       if (!syspart)
 	return;
       loaddev = grub_strdup (syspart);
+      if (loaddev == NULL)
+        return;
+
     }
 
   partptr = get_part (loaddev);