Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] crypto: avoid two coverity false positive error reports

[Eric Blake]

On 11/13/2015 10:45 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> In qcrypto_tls_creds_get_path() coverity complains that
> we are checking '*creds' for NULL, despite having
> dereferenced it previously. This is harmless bug due
> to fact that the trace call was too early. Moving it
> after the cleanup gets the desired semantics.
> 
> In qcrypto_tls_creds_check_cert_key_purpose() coverity
> complains that we're passing a pointer to a previously
> free'd buffer into gnutls_x509_crt_get_key_purpose_oid()
> This is harmless because we're passing a size == 0, so
> gnutls won't access the buffer, but rather just report
> what size it needs to be. We can avoid it though by
> explicitly setting the buffer to NULL after free'ing
> it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <address@hidden>
> ---
>  crypto/tlscreds.c     | 4 ++--
>  crypto/tlscredsx509.c | 1 +
>  2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <address@hidden>

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