From: Jeff King <peff@peff.net>
To: Philip Oakley <philipoakley@iee.org>
Cc: "Koch, Rick (Subcontractor)" <Rick.Koch@tbe.com>,
Git List <git@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 16:40:44 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130819204044.GA29258@sigill.intra.peff.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <33FCCE7A2CD5494B88F3C5CDBC341DFD@PhilipOakley>
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 09:03:21PM +0100, Philip Oakley wrote:
> In case other readers don't have a .xlsx reader here is Rick's list
> in plain text (may be white space damaged).
>
> I expect some will be false positives, and some will just be being
> too cautious.
>
> [...]
>
> description resourceFilePath fileName lineNumber
> nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\add.c add.c 286
Hm. That code in v1.8.3.4 reads:
if (pathspec)
while (pathspec[pc])
pc++;
What's the problem? If pathspec is not properly terminated, we can run
off the end, but I do see anything to indicate that is the case. What
does the "nullPointer" check mean here?
> wrongPrintfScanfArgNum(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\fetch.c
> fetch.c 588
Line 588 does not have formatted I/O at all. Are these line numbers
somehow not matching what I have in v1.8.3.4?
> nullPointer(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\ls-files.c ls-files.c
> 144
This one looks like:
if (tag && *tag && show_valid_bit &&
(ce->ce_flags & CE_VALID)) {
static char alttag[4];
memcpy(alttag, tag, 3);
if (isalpha(tag[0]))
where the final line is 144. But we have explicitly checked that tag is not
NULL...
> doubleFree(CppCheck) \git-master\builtin\notes.c notes.c 275
This one looks like:
if (...) {
free(buf);
die(...);
}
...
free(buf);
which might look like a double free if you do not know that die() will
never return (it is properly annotated for gcc, but I don't know whether
CppCheck understands such things).
So out of the 4 entries I investigated, none of them looks like an
actual problem. But I'm not even sure I am looking at the right place;
these don't even seem like things that would cause a false positive in a
static analyzer.
-Peff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-08-19 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-08-19 17:09 CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 Koch, Rick (Subcontractor)
2013-08-19 20:03 ` Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 20:40 ` Jeff King [this message]
2013-08-19 20:46 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-19 20:52 ` Johan Herland
[not found] ` <85C8141E5DAD94428A121F706995A31F010F116FDADE@MX1.net.tbe.com>
2013-08-19 21:46 ` Philip Oakley
2013-08-23 19:51 ` CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 (fetch.c L588) Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 22:55 ` CPPCheck found 24 high risk bugs in Git v.1.8.3.4 Philip Oakley
2013-08-19 23:15 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 14:33 ` Jeff King
2013-08-20 18:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-20 20:34 ` René Scharfe
2013-08-20 22:28 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 22:26 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-20 23:01 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-08-20 23:45 ` Junio C Hamano
2013-08-21 0:01 ` Erik Faye-Lund
2013-08-19 21:36 ` Stefan Beller
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