From a487280e095e376a40354e69c01593153d61f126 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Josiah Vehrs <jvehrs@amazon.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2026 18:17:53 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] util: fix possible return of unsanitized input in
 str_sanitize

Fixes: 71a2c5cae2a8 ("util: sanitize control characters in str_sanitize()")
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/merge_requests/1493>
---
 src/util-strings.h | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/util-strings.h b/src/util-strings.h
index 6186c167..a6ff440b 100644
--- a/src/util-strings.h
+++ b/src/util-strings.h
@@ -572,7 +572,7 @@ str_sanitize(const char *str)
 		}
 	}
 	if (!needs_sanitization)
-		return strdup(str);
+		return strndup(str, slen);
 
 	char *sanitized = zalloc(2 * slen + 1);
 	const char *src = str;