Multiple possible null-pointer dereferences

Benjamin Kaduk kaduk at MIT.EDU
Thu Sep 15 19:16:45 UTC 2016


On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Daniil Berendeev wrote:

> Hello, its cppcheck guy again.
>
> I'm digging through error messages, and there are lots of them related
> to null pointer dereferences. But I'm not sure if those should be
> considered as bugs and fixed. Maybe I'm missing a point?

I only looked at the first one, but it looks like a bug.

But, all the pasted examples looked like they were or were likely to be in
contrib code, so fixing them is more tedious, as it has to go through the
upstream code owner and then get imported into FreeBSD.

-Ben


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