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From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
To: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
	Markus Vervier <markus.vervier@x41-dsec.de>,
	git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Covierty Integration / Improvement
Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2022 13:20:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xmqqfsmqx8ud.fsf@gitster.g> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Yk3UAz3sn9KhMnyf@mit.edu> (Theodore Ts'o's message of "Wed, 6 Apr 2022 13:55:15 -0400")

"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> writes:

> On Wed, Apr 06, 2022 at 05:08:37PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
>> I have fixed Git for Windows' Coverity build and started to sift through
>> the 154 new defects reported as of v2.36.0-rc0.
>> 
>> Sadly, there is now a new class of overwhelming false positives: Coverity
>> claims that "strbuf_addstr does not [NUL-]terminate", which is of course
>> false.
>
> It should be possible to suppress this by uploading a Coverity model
> file.  See[1] for more details:
>
> [1] https://community.synopsys.com/s/article/practical-example-of-coverity-function-model
>
> I've suppressed a similar issue by using the attribute __nonstring,
> but I don't think that will work for git, because strbuf->buf really
> *is* a NUL-terminated string, where as in ext4 we have some fields
> which are designed to be NUL padded, but it is *not* guaranteed to be
> NUL-terminated:

That is very much expected from filesystem code, for which strncmp()
and friends were invented for ;-)

> (This is needed to suppress warnings by Clang as well.)
>
> Using __nonstring will result in attempts to use s_volume_name in "C"
> string context to give a warning, which is why this isn't right for
> strbuf->buf.

Indeed.  We do aim to make reading .buf member as NUL-terminated
string safe, so it would make it very inconvenient to warn against
such uses.

Thanks.



  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-06 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-01 20:49 Covierty Integration / Improvement Markus Vervier
2022-04-03 21:36 ` Junio C Hamano
2022-04-03 23:16   ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-04-04 10:14     ` Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
2022-04-05 22:22     ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-05 22:17 ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-06 15:08   ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-06 17:55     ` Theodore Ts'o
2022-04-06 20:20       ` Junio C Hamano [this message]
2022-04-07 11:49       ` Johannes Schindelin
2022-04-07  7:21   ` Markus Vervier
2022-04-07 11:58     ` Johannes Schindelin
     [not found]       ` <CAJY0qZLwQJ_6Me1em4X6M=YJb0O2+7rSYeKisLFOGH7_BW3Lww@mail.gmail.com>
     [not found]         ` <CAJY0qZJaBvwA19PN=Gm4c5gSVqYYBOoVwgF=1mZTNEjmXFSc7A@mail.gmail.com>
2022-05-10 17:46           ` Derek Zimmer

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