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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ip: handle NULL return from localtime in strxf_time in
Date: Sat, 15 Feb 2025 20:41:43 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250215204143.0ae30525@hermes.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250216022523.647342-1-ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>

On Sun, 16 Feb 2025 05:25:23 +0300
Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com> wrote:

> Static analyzer reported:
> Pointer 'tp', returned from function 'localtime' at ipxfrm.c:352, may be NULL 
> and is dereferenced at ipxfrm.c:354 by calling function 'strftime'.
> 
> Corrections explained:
> The function localtime() may return NULL if the provided time value is
> invalid. This commit adds a check for NULL and handles the error case
> by copying "invalid-time" into the output buffer.
> Unlikely, but may return an error
> 
> Triggers found by static analyzer Svace.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anton Moryakov <ant.v.moryakov@gmail.com>

Seems like you are creating dead code. Unless glibc is broken
this can never happen.

      reply	other threads:[~2025-02-16  4:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-02-16  2:25 [PATCH] ip: handle NULL return from localtime in strxf_time in Anton Moryakov
2025-02-16  4:41 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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