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simple-scan package

Clang's static analyser detects 7 null pointer dereference occurrences in simple-scan

Bug #1212452 reported by Anthony Harrington
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Bug Description

Clang detects 7 null pointer dereferences within the code (a few hundred dead initialisations/assignments as well, but these are most important and i'll try not to bloat this bug report.)

Sorry i couldn't be of any help solving these though, i hope these reports are useful and the problems easy to fix.

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Anthony Harrington (linuxchemist) wrote :

and this is the complete report, for posterity (and may be the cause of future bug reports!)

information type: Private Security → Public Security
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Seth Arnold (seth-arnold) wrote :

Since all these were in C code generated by valac, it might be better to report these bugs to the valac project. They'll be in a better position to decide a course of action.

Thanks

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Anthony Harrington (linuxchemist) wrote :

Having some trouble tar'ing these for some reason :S should be fine now?

Anthony Harrington (linuxchemist)
summary: - 7 null pointer dereference occurrences
+ Clang's static analyser detects 7 null pointer dereference occurrences
+ in simple-scan
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Robert Ancell (robert-ancell) wrote :

With a quick look they do seem to be false-positives or due to the way valac has generated the code. I can't see any particular case which can be fixed in the simple-scan source (second opinions welcome).

Marc Deslauriers (mdeslaur)
information type: Public Security → Public
Michael Nagel (nailor)
Changed in simple-scan (Ubuntu):
status: New → Opinion
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