The Clang analyzer has trouble detecting that functions can never return
null in certain conditions, this results in several false "Dereference of
null pointer" detections.

This patch annotates functions that call ovsdb_error_valist()
unconditionally as non-null, as this function will either return a valid
pointer or call abort().

Signed-off-by: Mike Pattrick <[email protected]>
---
 lib/ovsdb-error.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/ovsdb-error.h b/lib/ovsdb-error.h
index 77a60e074..a63e92b15 100644
--- a/lib/ovsdb-error.h
+++ b/lib/ovsdb-error.h
@@ -20,12 +20,15 @@
 
 struct json;
 
+OVS_RETURNS_NONNULL
 struct ovsdb_error *ovsdb_error(const char *tag, const char *details, ...)
     OVS_PRINTF_FORMAT(2, 3)
     OVS_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
+OVS_RETURNS_NONNULL
 struct ovsdb_error *ovsdb_io_error(int error, const char *details, ...)
     OVS_PRINTF_FORMAT(2, 3)
     OVS_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
+OVS_RETURNS_NONNULL
 struct ovsdb_error *ovsdb_syntax_error(const struct json *, const char *tag,
                                        const char *details, ...)
     OVS_PRINTF_FORMAT(3, 4)
@@ -35,12 +38,14 @@ struct ovsdb_error *ovsdb_wrap_error(struct ovsdb_error 
*error,
                                      const char *details, ...)
     OVS_PRINTF_FORMAT(2, 3);
 
+OVS_RETURNS_NONNULL
 struct ovsdb_error *ovsdb_internal_error(struct ovsdb_error *error,
                                          const char *file, int line,
                                          const char *details, ...)
     OVS_PRINTF_FORMAT(4, 5)
     OVS_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
 
+OVS_RETURNS_NONNULL
 struct ovsdb_error *ovsdb_perm_error(const char *details, ...)
     OVS_PRINTF_FORMAT(1, 2)
     OVS_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
-- 
2.43.5

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