Coverity Scan on rtems_libio_post_driver()
Gedare Bloom
gedare at rtems.org
Mon Sep 16 21:13:15 UTC 2013
I think your analysis is right, but I would mark it "intentional"
-Gedare
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 5:11 PM, Joel Sherrill
<joel.sherrill at oarcorp.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> Ids 1063883, 1063884, and 1063885.
>
> I was looking at the items Coverity Scan marks as
> resource leaks and rtems_libio_post_driver() is
> marked for three leaks because the open for
> stdin, out, and error assign the integer fd to
> a local variable which falls out of scope.
>
> cpukit/libcsupport/open_dev_console.c
>
> I think the analysis is technically correct. We
> assign the fd returned by open() to a local
> variable which falls out of scope but these
> are fd 0, 1, and 2 which are special. Coverity
> doesn't know these are special.
>
> I am prone to mark these as false positive.
> Before I do that, I would appreciate someone
> confirming my analysis.
>
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