9c1916057a
Check the return value for malloc(), avoiding a NULL pointer
dereference, and propagate error in function callers.
Found with GCC 13 and -fanalyzer:
../subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c: In function ‘virtqueue_alloc_element’:
../subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c:2556:19: error: dereference of possibly-NULL ‘elem’ [CWE-690] [-Werror=analyzer-possible-null-dereference]
2556 | elem->out_num = out_num;
| ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~
‘virtqueue_alloc_element’: event 1
|
| 2554 | assert(sz >= sizeof(VuVirtqElement));
| | ^~~~~~
| | |
| | (1) following ‘true’ branch (when ‘sz > 31’)...
|
‘virtqueue_alloc_element’: events 2-4
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| 2555 | elem = malloc(out_sg_end);
| | ^~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| | | |
| | | (3) this call could return NULL
| | (2) ...to here
| 2556 | elem->out_num = out_num;
| | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
| | |
| | (4) ‘elem’ could be NULL: unchecked value from (3)
|
Signed-off-by: Carlos López <clopez@suse.de>
Message-Id: <20230210112514.16858-1-clopez@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@redhat.com>
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| .. | ||
| include | ||
| standard-headers | ||
| libvhost-user-glib.c | ||
| libvhost-user-glib.h | ||
| libvhost-user.c | ||
| libvhost-user.h | ||
| link-test.c | ||
| meson.build | ||