Re: [chrony-dev] Alleged out of bounds read in cmdmon.c

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On Tue, Aug 05, 2014 at 01:47:37PM +0200, Holger Hoffstätte wrote:
> On 08/05/14 12:31, Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> > [1] http://listengine.tuxfamily.org/chrony.tuxfamily.org/chrony-dev/2013/10/msg00011.html
> 
> Why is the "potential null dereference" in sys_linux.c a false positive? If #365 yields null into pw, it will LOG_FATAL and then continue to fall through to #377 where the call to setgid will deref the still-null pw. No?

LOG_FATAL calls exit(), it doesn't return. We could add "return 0" there
to remove the warning, but there are still other 6 in the report.

-- 
Miroslav Lichvar

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