From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:55395) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erLw5-0005Hh-4H for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 05:59:42 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erLw2-0002QZ-3A for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 05:59:41 -0500 Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:40462 helo=mx1.redhat.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1erLw1-0002QJ-VE for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2018 05:59:38 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2018 11:59:16 +0100 From: Cornelia Huck Message-ID: <20180301115916.634904f3.cohuck@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: References: <1519888086-4207-1-git-send-email-jusual@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] use g_path_get_basename instead of basename List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: =?UTF-8?B?TWFyYy1BbmRyw6k=?= Lureau Cc: Julia Suvorova , QEMU , Stefan Hajnoczi , Jim Mussared , Joel Stanley , Paolo Bonzini , Richard Henderson On Thu, 1 Mar 2018 10:47:42 +0100 Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau wrote: > Hi >=20 > On Thu, Mar 1, 2018 at 8:08 AM, Julia Suvorova via Qemu-devel > wrote: > > basename(3) and dirname(3) modify their argument and may return > > pointers to statically allocated memory which may be overwritten by > > subsequent calls. > > g_path_get_basename and g_path_get_dirname have no such issues, and > > therefore more preferable. > > > > Signed-off-by: Julia Suvorova =20 >=20 > What about adding a warning for basename()/dirname() usage in > scripts/checkpatch.pl ? +1 to that. >=20 > Reviewed-by: Marc-Andr=C3=A9 Lureau Reviewed-by: Cornelia Huck