memset bugs.
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Wed Nov 25 22:03:11 UTC 2009
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:58:38PM -0500, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:43:13PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> > There's some obvious bugs below in a bunch of packages.
> > The 2nd and 3rd arguments to memset calls are the wrong way around.
> > I found these after grepping through a make prep'd devel/ tree.
> >
> > 15 hits out of 100G of source code isn't that bad, but we can do better!
>
> glibc headers warn about this (when -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2), so a faster way
> would be just grep through all packages' build.log files (preferrably on the
> box where they are stored to avoid downloading it all).
Can we make it fail the build instead of warning ?
A zero sized memset is always a bug.
Dave
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