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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>
Cc: linux-trace-devel@vger.kernel.org,
	Tzvetomir Stoyanov <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/2] libtracefs: Move initialization below a null test.
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2022 14:02:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20221215140203.103faf50@gandalf.local.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221215183151.2685460-1-irogers@google.com>

On Thu, 15 Dec 2022 10:31:50 -0800
Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com> wrote:

> Computing the address from a NULL pointer results in undefined behavior
> which things like undefined behavior sanitizer promote into real
> failures.

I thought commit aff006d4af0c7 ("libtracefs: Do not initialize with NULL
offsets") was suppose to fix this.

Oh, I think I may have forgotten to remove the check against dynevent!

Does this work instead?

-- Steve

diff --git a/src/tracefs-dynevents.c b/src/tracefs-dynevents.c
index 48bb26a96c58..7a3c45ce25a3 100644
--- a/src/tracefs-dynevents.c
+++ b/src/tracefs-dynevents.c
@@ -713,9 +713,6 @@ dynevent_info(struct tracefs_dynevent *dynevent, char **system,
 			&dynevent->address, &dynevent->format };
 	int i;
 
-	if (!dynevent)
-		return TRACEFS_DYNEVENT_UNKNOWN;
-
 	for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(lv); i++) {
 		if (lv[i]) {
 			if (*rv[i]) {

  parent reply	other threads:[~2022-12-15 19:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-12-15 18:31 [PATCH v1 1/2] libtracefs: Move initialization below a null test Ian Rogers
2022-12-15 18:31 ` [PATCH v1 2/2] libtracefs: Fix compiler -Wmemsize-comparison warning Ian Rogers
2022-12-15 19:03   ` Steven Rostedt
2022-12-15 19:02 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2022-12-15 20:13   ` [PATCH v1 1/2] libtracefs: Move initialization below a null test Ian Rogers

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