From 578b28a0ecb219cda2c005fb8d4ef244c2edc19d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vojtech Trefny <vtrefny@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:43:24 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] utils: Fail early when calling bd_utils_resolve_device with
 NULL

gcc static analyzer is complaining about this and the produced
error in case is quite cryptic.
---
 src/utils/dev_utils.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/utils/dev_utils.c b/src/utils/dev_utils.c
index 89a54b4ca..9280b8078 100644
--- a/src/utils/dev_utils.c
+++ b/src/utils/dev_utils.c
@@ -64,6 +64,12 @@ gchar* bd_utils_resolve_device (const gchar *dev_spec, GError **error) {
     g_autofree gchar *symlink = NULL;
     GError *l_error = NULL;
 
+    if (dev_spec == NULL) {
+        g_set_error (error, BD_UTILS_DEV_UTILS_ERROR, BD_UTILS_DEV_UTILS_ERROR_FAILED,
+                     "Device specification required");
+        return NULL;
+    }
+
     if (!g_str_has_prefix (dev_spec, "/dev/"))
         path = g_strdup_printf ("/dev/%s", dev_spec);
     else