On Fri, Aug 09, 2024 at 10:19:54AM -0700, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 9, 2024 at 4:23 AM Dan Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hello Andrii Nakryiko,
> >
> > This is a semi-automatic email about new static checker warnings.
> >
> > Commit 8863238993e2 ("selftests/bpf: BPF register range bounds
> > tester") from Nov 11, 2023, leads to the following Smatch complaint:
> >
> >     ./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/reg_bounds.c:1121 
> > parse_reg_state()
> >     warn: variable dereferenced before check 'p' (see line 1119)
> >
> > ./tools/testing/selftests/bpf/prog_tests/reg_bounds.c
> >   1118                  p = strpbrk(p, ",)");
> >   1119                  if (*p == ')')
> >   1120                          break;
> >   1121                  if (p)
> >
> > Was this NULL check supposed to be checking for the NUL terminator?
> 
> yeah, looks like a bug, it probably should be `if (p && *p == ')')
> break;`. Are you planning to send the fix to [email protected]?
>

No, sorry.  I send drive by one liners, but BPF is too much of a headache to
deal with if you're not a regular BPFer.  Plus these days I have so little time
that I send way more bug reports than patches...

regards,
dan carpenter


Reply via email to