Re: [Qemu-devel] Coverity model of g_malloc_n & Co.

[Markus Armbruster]

Jan Kiszka <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Markus,
>
> due to a lack of publicly available documentation on the Coverity
> modeling language (or my blindness to find it), I was about to steal
> some patterns from QEMU (to improve the kmalloc model for the kernel). I
> think I stumbled over some inconsistency: Don't we need to allocate the
> calculated size here, not the passed one?
>
> diff --git a/scripts/coverity-model.c b/scripts/coverity-model.c
> index 58356af..cdda259 100644
> --- a/scripts/coverity-model.c
> +++ b/scripts/coverity-model.c
> @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ void *g_malloc_n(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
>      __coverity_negative_sink__(nmemb);
>      __coverity_negative_sink__(size);
>      sz = nmemb * size;
> -    ptr = __coverity_alloc__(size);
> +    ptr = __coverity_alloc__(sz);
>      __coverity_mark_as_uninitialized_buffer__(ptr);
>      __coverity_mark_as_afm_allocated__(ptr, "g_free");
>      return ptr;
> @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ void *g_malloc0_n(size_t nmemb, size_t size)
>      __coverity_negative_sink__(nmemb);
>      __coverity_negative_sink__(size);
>      sz = nmemb * size;
> -    ptr = __coverity_alloc__(size);
> +    ptr = __coverity_alloc__(sz);
>      __coverity_writeall0__(ptr);
>      __coverity_mark_as_afm_allocated__(ptr, "g_free");
>      return ptr;
> @@ -151,7 +151,7 @@ void *g_realloc_n(void *ptr, size_t nmemb, size_t size)
>      __coverity_negative_sink__(size);
>      sz = nmemb * size;
>      __coverity_escape__(ptr);
> -    ptr = __coverity_alloc__(size);
> +    ptr = __coverity_alloc__(sz);
>      /*
>       * Memory beyond the old size isn't actually initialized.  Can't
>       * model that.  See Coverity's realloc() model
>
> If so, I can file a proper patch later.

You're right!  Please submit a patch.