From: "Philippe Mathieu-Daudé" <philmd@linaro.org>
To: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: sstabellini@kernel.org, anthony@xenproject.org, paul@xen.org,
edgar.iglesias@gmail.com, xen-devel@lists.xenproject.org,
qemu-trivial@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hw/display/xenfb: Replace unreachable code by abort()
Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2025 16:14:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ba4ca63b-6d46-4df9-8d30-fc0537736adf@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877bwz6oqy.fsf@pond.sub.org>
On 13/10/25 13:10, Markus Armbruster wrote:
> Ping?
>
> Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com> writes:
>
>> xenfb_mouse_event() has a switch statement whose controlling
>> expression move->axis is an enum InputAxis. The enum values are
>> INPUT_AXIS_X and INPUT_AXIS_Y, encoded as 0 and 1. The switch has a
>> case for both axes. In addition, it has an unreachable default label.
>> This convinces Coverity that move->axis can be greater than 1. It
>> duly reports a buffer overrun when it is used to subscript an array
>> with two elements.
>>
>> Replace the unreachable code by abort().
>>
>> Resolves: Coverity CID 1613906
>> Signed-off-by: Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>
>> ---
>> hw/display/xenfb.c | 3 +--
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
Reviewed-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@linaro.org>
and queued with g_assert_not_reached(), thanks!
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-10-13 14:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-07-29 11:12 [PATCH] hw/display/xenfb: Replace unreachable code by abort() Markus Armbruster
2025-07-29 11:26 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-07-29 12:16 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-07-29 12:59 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé
2025-07-29 13:16 ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2025-10-13 11:10 ` Markus Armbruster
2025-10-13 14:14 ` Philippe Mathieu-Daudé [this message]
2025-10-13 19:17 ` Bernhard Beschow
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