CID 26033: Dereference after null check in _Objects_Extend_information(). Closes #4326 --- cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c | 11 +++++++++++ 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c b/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c index 9796eb9..c669301 100644 --- a/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c +++ b/cpukit/score/src/objectextendinformation.c @@ -171,6 +171,17 @@ Objects_Maximum _Objects_Extend_information( if ( old_maximum > extend_count ) { /* + * Coverity thinks there is a way for this to be NULL (CID #26033). + * After much time spent analyzing this, no one has identified the + * conditions where this can actually occur. Adding this _Assert ensures + * that it is never NULL. If this assert is triggered, condition + * generating this case will have been identified and it can be revisted. + * This is being done out of an abundance of caution since we could have + * easily flagged this as a false positive and ignored it completely. + */ + _Assert(information->object_blocks != NULL); + + /* * Copy each section of the table over. This has to be performed as * separate parts as size of each block has changed. */ -- 1.8.3.1 _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@rtems.org http://lists.rtems.org/mailman/listinfo/devel