diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index aa1c7a076..ee27fccd8 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2013-12-07  Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
+
+	* util/misc.c (grub_qsort_strcmp): Add qsort helper function to sort
+	strings.
+	* include/grub/util/misc.h: Define it ...
+	* util/grub-install.c (device_map_check_duplicates): ... and use it.
+
 2013-12-07  Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@gmail.com>
 
 	* util/grub.d/30_os-prober.in: Fix use of grub-probe instead of
diff --git a/include/grub/util/misc.h b/include/grub/util/misc.h
index 6aacf237a..192874d42 100644
--- a/include/grub/util/misc.h
+++ b/include/grub/util/misc.h
@@ -47,4 +47,6 @@ void grub_util_init_nls (void);
 
 void grub_util_host_init (int *argc, char ***argv);
 
+int grub_qsort_strcmp (const void *, const void *);
+
 #endif /* ! GRUB_UTIL_MISC_HEADER */
diff --git a/util/grub-install.c b/util/grub-install.c
index 7a1db422b..db5e0c321 100644
--- a/util/grub-install.c
+++ b/util/grub-install.c
@@ -586,7 +586,7 @@ device_map_check_duplicates (const char *dev_map)
 
   fclose (fp);
 
-  qsort (d, filled, sizeof (d[0]), (int (*) (const void *, const void *))strcmp);
+  qsort (d, filled, sizeof (d[0]), grub_qsort_strcmp);
 
   for (i = 0; i + 1 < filled; i++)
     if (strcmp (d[i], d[i+1]) == 0)
diff --git a/util/misc.c b/util/misc.c
index 0de340bbe..9eb1fc13c 100644
--- a/util/misc.c
+++ b/util/misc.c
@@ -256,3 +256,11 @@ void
 grub_register_exported_symbols (void)
 {
 }
+
+/* Used in comparison of arrays of strings with qsort */
+int
+grub_qsort_strcmp (const void *p1, const void *p2)
+{
+  return strcmp(*(char **)p1, *(char **)p2);
+}
+