From: Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@mac.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
Cc: bunk@stusta.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Subject: Re: Do not misuse Coverity please (Was: sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use)
Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 17:37:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <125c71877e5ad9e625336709874ced54@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050329142248.GA32455@nevyn.them.org>
On Mar 29, 2005, at 09:22, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> The thing GCC is most likely to do with this code is discard the NULL
> check entirely and leave only the oops; the "if (!card)" can not be
> reached without passing through "card->amplifier", and a pointer which
> is dereferenced can not be NULL in a valid program.
Not true! It is perfectly legal on a large number of platforms to
explicitly mmap something at the address 0, at which point dereferencing
a null pointer is exactly like dereferencing any other pointer on the
heap. Doing so is not recommended except in a few special cases for
emulators and such, but it works to some extent.
Cheers,
Kyle Moffett
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prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-29 22:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-27 20:50 [2.6 patch] sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use Adrian Bunk
2005-03-27 21:21 ` Do not misuse Coverity please (Was: sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use) Jean Delvare
2005-03-27 21:43 ` Adrian Bunk
2005-03-27 22:34 ` Jean Delvare
2005-03-27 22:45 ` Russell King
2005-03-28 12:54 ` Matthias-Christian Ott
2005-03-28 23:57 ` L. A. Walsh
2005-03-29 6:05 ` Daniel Barkalow
2005-03-29 6:23 ` Andrew Morton
2005-03-29 10:46 ` Jean Delvare
2005-03-29 14:12 ` Chris Friesen
2005-03-30 1:25 ` Horst von Brand
2005-03-30 7:53 ` Do not misuse Coverity please Jean Delvare
2005-03-30 17:09 ` Horst von Brand
2005-04-11 20:23 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-30 18:29 ` Shankar Unni
2005-03-30 18:55 ` Olivier Galibert
2005-03-31 2:01 ` Patrick McFarland
2005-03-30 19:14 ` Paulo Marques
2005-03-30 23:11 ` Big GCC bug!!! [Was: Re: Do not misuse Coverity please] Kyle Moffett
2005-03-30 23:38 ` Not a GCC bug (was Re: Big GCC bug!!! [Was: Re: Do not misuse Coverity please]) Jakub Jelinek
2005-03-31 0:58 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-31 1:12 ` Nick Piggin
2005-03-31 1:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2005-03-29 14:22 ` Do not misuse Coverity please (Was: sound/oss/cs46xx.c: fix a check after use) Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-03-29 22:37 ` Kyle Moffett [this message]
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