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authorSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2021-07-28 16:58:17 +0530
committerSiddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@sourceware.org>2021-07-28 17:45:14 +0530
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xmalloc: Fix warnings with gcc analyzer
Tell the compiler that xmalloc family of allocators always return non-NULL. xrealloc in locale/programs also always returns non-NULL, but that conflicts with default realloc behaviour and that of xrealloc in libsupport, so keep it as is for now and resolve the differences later. Reviewed-by: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
-rw-r--r--include/programs/xmalloc.h9
-rw-r--r--misc/sys/cdefs.h10
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/programs/xmalloc.h b/include/programs/xmalloc.h
index 33871e22ef..5dc6aac57b 100644
--- a/include/programs/xmalloc.h
+++ b/include/programs/xmalloc.h
@@ -23,11 +23,14 @@
/* Prototypes for a few program-wide used functions. */
extern void *xmalloc (size_t n)
- __attribute_malloc__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((1)) __attr_dealloc_free;
+ __attribute_malloc__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((1)) __attr_dealloc_free
+ __returns_nonnull;
extern void *xcalloc (size_t n, size_t s)
- __attribute_malloc__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((1, 2)) __attr_dealloc_free;
+ __attribute_malloc__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((1, 2)) __attr_dealloc_free
+ __returns_nonnull;
extern void *xrealloc (void *o, size_t n)
__attribute_malloc__ __attribute_alloc_size__ ((2)) __attr_dealloc_free;
-extern char *xstrdup (const char *) __attribute_malloc__ __attr_dealloc_free;
+extern char *xstrdup (const char *) __attribute_malloc__ __attr_dealloc_free
+ __returns_nonnull;
#endif /* xmalloc.h */
diff --git a/misc/sys/cdefs.h b/misc/sys/cdefs.h
index 30a621ab8f..e490fc1aeb 100644
--- a/misc/sys/cdefs.h
+++ b/misc/sys/cdefs.h
@@ -330,6 +330,16 @@
# define __nonnull(params) _GL_ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL (params)
#endif
+/* The returns_nonnull function attribute marks the return type of the function
+ as always being non-null. */
+#ifndef __returns_nonnull
+# if __GNUC_PREREQ (4, 9) || __glibc_has_attribute (__returns_nonnull__)
+# define __returns_nonnull __attribute__ ((__returns_nonnull__))
+# else
+# define __returns_nonnull
+# endif
+#endif
+
/* If fortification mode, we warn about unused results of certain
function calls which can lead to problems. */
#if __GNUC_PREREQ (3,4) || __glibc_has_attribute (__warn_unused_result__)