[Gluster-devel] glusterfs-3.3.0qa34 released

Patrick Matthäi pmatthaei at debian.org
Tue Apr 10 20:15:13 UTC 2012


Am 10.04.2012 22:10, schrieb Jeff Darcy:
> On 04/10/2012 03:59 PM, Patrick Matthäi wrote:
>> The "problem" is, that the % substitution is missing, so:
>>
>> gf_log (this->name, GF_LOG_ERROR, msg);
>> should become:
>> gf_log (this->name, GF_LOG_ERROR, "%s", msg);
>>
>> I didn't checked if this was introduced in other places, too.
>>
>> In 3.2.5 there was a simmilar fault, which my co-maintainer of the
>> glusterfs packaging has been fixed:
>> http://review.gluster.com/#change,2598
> 
> Yes, it's easy to work around, and patches to do just that would be welcome.
> I'll be the first to approve them.  OTOH, false positives are the bane of any
> effort to improve software quality via static analysis.  The fact that gcc has
> now generated two false positives for the same non-problem suggests that its
> format-security diagnostics are not the right basis for such an effort.

I am currently on patching, since I have got two patches now and I am on
my third buildd run (just building on my cow-power-notebook atm) I may
need some minutes ;)

IMHO at the above code it is a false-positive, but in general the
warning/fatal is right, so that programmers use such functions in an
secure manner from the beginning, like using prepared SQL statements
also if there query is static..
But this is too much for this thread ;-)


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