[PATCH] Squash coverity warning for REVERSE_INULL in dump_note_entry_p
Keith Seitz
keiths@redhat.com
Wed Nov 18 21:06:09 GMT 2020
Coverity detected a "defect" in dump_noe_entry_p in linux-tdep.c:
static int
dump_note_entry_p (filter_flags filterflags, const struct smaps_vmflags *v,
int maybe_private_p, int mapping_anon_p, int mapping_file_p,
const char *filename, ULONGEST addr, ULONGEST offset)
{
/* vDSO and vsyscall mappings will end up in the core file. Don't
put them in the NT_FILE note. */
if (strcmp ("[vdso]", filename) == 0
|| strcmp ("[vsyscall]", filename) == 0)
return 0;
/* Otherwise, any other file-based mapping should be placed in the
note. */
return filename != nullptr;
}
Those strcmp's will derefernce `filename' so there is little point
to checking whether it is non-NULL or not; we would have already
segfaulted. It also cannot be nullptr because its value is read directly
from /proc/PID/maps. The "worst" it can be is an empty string.
gdb/ChangeLog
2020-11-18 Keith Seitz <keiths@redhat.com>
* linux-tdep.c (dump_note_entry_p): Return true instead of
checking `filename'.
---
gdb/ChangeLog | 5 +++++
gdb/linux-tdep.c | 2 +-
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/gdb/linux-tdep.c b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
index bacb61398f..8f7bbd5c23 100644
--- a/gdb/linux-tdep.c
+++ b/gdb/linux-tdep.c
@@ -742,7 +742,7 @@ dump_note_entry_p (filter_flags filterflags, const struct smaps_vmflags *v,
/* Otherwise, any other file-based mapping should be placed in the
note. */
- return filename != nullptr;
+ return 1;
}
/* Implement the "info proc" command. */
--
2.26.2
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