[libvirt] [PATCH] virbitmaptest: Shut coverity up in case of broken test

[Peter Krempa]

On 08/19/13 15:12, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 08/19/2013 06:11 AM, Peter Krempa wrote:
>> Coverity reported a memleak in the test added in 7efd5fd1b02. In case
>> the code will be broken and the code will actually parse a faulty bitmap
>> the resulting pointer would be leaked. Free it although that shouldn't
>> ever happen.
>> ---
>>  tests/virbitmaptest.c | 1 +
>>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/tests/virbitmaptest.c b/tests/virbitmaptest.c
>> index c56d6fa..e00b0a0 100644
>> --- a/tests/virbitmaptest.c
>> +++ b/tests/virbitmaptest.c
>> @@ -492,6 +492,7 @@ test9(const void *opaque ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
>>
>>      ret = 0;
>>  cleanup:
>> +    virBitmapFree(bitmap);
> 
> Hmm - in this function, bitmap starts life uninitialized, but
> virBitmapParse starts with 'if (!str) return -1;' prior to '*bitmap =
> ...'.  Therefore, it is possible that Coverity may complain about
> getting to the cleanup function and freeing uninitialized memory.
> 
> It may be worth improving virBitmapParse to do '*bitmap = NULL' prior to
> any return value, so that the caller always has an initialized variable
> after the call.
> 

Hmm, I didn't notice that when fixing virBitmapParse. I'll push this
test with bitmap initialized to NULL and I'll follow up with fixing
virBitmapParse.

Peter

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