Re: New Defects reported by Coverity Scan for XenProject

[Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com>]

On 05.11.2023 10:58, scan-admin@coverity.com wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Please find the latest report on new defect(s) introduced to XenProject found with Coverity Scan.
> 
> 1 new defect(s) introduced to XenProject found with Coverity Scan.
> 1 defect(s), reported by Coverity Scan earlier, were marked fixed in the recent build analyzed by Coverity Scan.
> 
> New defect(s) Reported-by: Coverity Scan
> Showing 1 of 1 defect(s)
> 
> 
> ** CID 1548622:  Null pointer dereferences  (NULL_RETURNS)
> /tools/firmware/xen-dir/xen-root/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/mcaction.c: 96 in mc_memerr_dhandler()
> 
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________________________________________
> *** CID 1548622:  Null pointer dereferences  (NULL_RETURNS)
> /tools/firmware/xen-dir/xen-root/xen/arch/x86/cpu/mcheck/mcaction.c: 96 in mc_memerr_dhandler()
> 90                     d = rcu_lock_domain_by_id(bank->mc_domid);
> 91                     ASSERT(d);

No matter that this code can certainly do with hardening, how can - with
this ASSERT() - ...

> 92                     gfn = get_gpfn_from_mfn((bank->mc_addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT);
> 93     
> 94                     if ( unmmap_broken_page(d, mfn, gfn) )
> 95                     {
>>>>     CID 1548622:  Null pointer dereferences  (NULL_RETURNS)
>>>>     Dereferencing "d", which is known to be "NULL".
> 96                         printk("Unmap broken memory %"PRI_mfn" for DOM%d failed\n",
> 97                                mfn_x(mfn), d->domain_id);

... Coverity "know" that d is going to be NULL here? Best I can infer is
that in a release build d _may_ end up being NULL.

Jan

> 98                         goto vmce_failed;
> 99                     }
> 100     
> 101                     mc_vcpuid = global->mc_vcpuid;
> 
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