[Skiboot] [PATCH 1/4] external/pflash: Silence false positive Coverity CID 163739
Stewart Smith
stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Tue Aug 22 14:57:36 AEST 2017
Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> Several of the cases in the getopt loop take the optarg pointer and pass
> it to functions which will dereference it. There is currently no bug as
> all of these are marked to getopt as having a requirement argument so
> optarg will never be null.
>
> The rationale for this patch is firstly to silence coverity as it is
> fairly simple to do. More importantly having a brand new version of this
> Coverity error appear in the event of a future mistake with optional
> arguments to getopt will be useful.
>
> Fixes: CID 163739
> Signed-off-by: Cyril Bur <cyril.bur at au1.ibm.com>
> ---
> external/pflash/pflash.c | 6 ++++++
> 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
Series merged to master as of 916bc2d8da8fee71653c325cc752f0ce901a58a2
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Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.
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