From 2844e2834e2e1823389e88ecaea9c6aa752f9e63 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: probonopd <probonopd@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2024 21:00:06 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Check for the return value of prfxpathPos

https://github.com/probonopd/go-appimage/issues/300#issuecomment-2328288496

Thanks @kevle
---
 src/appimagetool/appdirtool.go | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/appimagetool/appdirtool.go b/src/appimagetool/appdirtool.go
index ff4ed54..01c1ef2 100644
--- a/src/appimagetool/appdirtool.go
+++ b/src/appimagetool/appdirtool.go
@@ -511,7 +511,12 @@ func patchQtPrfxpath(appdir helpers.AppDir, lib string, libraryLocationsInAppDir
 	f.Seek(0, 0)
 	// Search from the beginning of the file
 	search := []byte("qt_prfxpath=")
-	offset := ScanFile(f, search) + int64(len(search))
+	prfxpathPos := ScanFile(f, search)
+	if prfxpathPos < 0 {
+		helpers.PrintError("Could not find offset for " + string(search), errors.New("no " + string(search) + " token in binary"))
+		os.Exit(1)
+	}
+	offset := prfxpathPos + int64(len(search))
 	log.Println("Offset of qt_prfxpath:", offset)
 	/*
 		What does qt_prfxpath=. actually mean on a Linux system? Where is "."?