don't crash on null strings in printf

passing null pointer for %s is UB but lots of broken programs do it anyway

diff --git a/src/stdio/vfprintf.c b/src/stdio/vfprintf.c
index 4c990e5..b5001ff 100644 (file)
--- a/src/stdio/vfprintf.c
+++ b/src/stdio/vfprintf.c
@@ -584,7 +584,7 @@ static int printf_core(FILE *f, const char *fmt, va_list *ap, union arg *nl_arg,
                case 'm':
                        if (1) a = strerror(errno); else
                case 's':
-                       a = arg.p;
+                       a = arg.p ? arg.p : "(null)";
                        z = memchr(a, 0, p);
                        if (!z) z=a+p;
                        else p=z-a;