Thanks for you reply.
I think you are right, I will send a new version later.
On 2019/11/19 10:50, David Gibson wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 09:50:13AM +0800, pannengy...@huawei.com wrote:
>> From: PanNengyuan <pannengy...@huawei.com>
>>
>> source is being dereferenced before it is null checked, hence there is a
>> potential null pointer dereference.
>>
>> This fixes:
>> 360
>> CID 68911917: (NULL_RETURNS)
>> 361. dereference: Dereferencing "source", which is known to be
>> "NULL".
>> 361 if (source->mask & event_mask) {
>> 362 break;
>> 363 }
>>
>> Reported-by: Euler Robot <euler.ro...@huawei.com>
>> Signed-off-by: PanNengyuan <pannengy...@huawei.com>
>
> I don't think this is the right solution. The only events we ever
> generated are LOG_TYPE_EPOW and LOG_TYPE_HOTPLUG, so in fact source
> should never be NULL.
>
> I think the correct way to satisfy Coverity here is to have
> rtas_event_log_to_source() do an assert(), rather than returning NULL
> for other event types.
>
>> ---
>> hw/ppc/spapr_events.c | 2 +-
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/hw/ppc/spapr_events.c b/hw/ppc/spapr_events.c
>> index 0e4c195..febd2ef 100644
>> --- a/hw/ppc/spapr_events.c
>> +++ b/hw/ppc/spapr_events.c
>> @@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ static SpaprEventLogEntry
>> *rtas_event_log_dequeue(SpaprMachineState *spapr,
>> rtas_event_log_to_source(spapr,
>> spapr_event_log_entry_type(entry));
>>
>> - if (source->mask & event_mask) {
>> + if (source && (source->mask & event_mask)) {
>> break;
>> }
>> }
>
