linux-kernel - Re: sparse annotation for error types?

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Date:   Wed, 9 Dec 2020 10:53:39 +0800
From:   Zhang Changzhong <zhangchangzhong@...wei.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-sparse@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        <edwin.peer@...adcom.com>
Subject: Re: sparse annotation for error types?



On 2020/12/8 21:28, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Hi Zhang,
> 
> Are you using Coccinelle to detect these bugs?

In fact, I'm not familiar with Coccinelle, these bugs are reported by robot.

> 
> On Sat, Dec 05, 2020 at 02:32:50PM -0800, Jakub Kicinski wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Recently we've been getting a steady stream of patches from Changzhong
>> to fix missing assignment to error variables before jumping to error
>> cases.
> 
> I've mucked about with this a little in Smatch trying to work out some
> heuristics to use.  I added a warning for a NULL return followed by a
> goto.  Then on Friday I added a warning for a _dev_err() print followed
> by a goto.  But neither of those rules catches the bug fixed by commit
> 4de377b65903 ("net: marvell: prestera: Fix error return code in
> prestera_port_create()"), where the error was invalid data.
> 
> 	if (idx >= size)
> 		goto free_whatever;
> 
> I'm going to print a warning if the function ends in a cleanup block
> that can only be reached by gotos.  We'll see how that works tomorrow.
> 
> static void match_return(struct statement *stmt)
> {
>         struct sm_state *sm, *tmp;
>         sval_t sval;
>         char *name;
>         bool is_last;
> 
> 	// Only complain if the function returns a variable
>         if (!stmt->ret_value || stmt->ret_value->type != EXPR_SYMBOL)
>                 return;
> 
> 	// The function returns an int
>         if (cur_func_return_type() != &int_ctype)
>                 return;
> 
> 	// It's only reachable via a goto
>         if (get_state(my_id, "path", NULL) != &label)
>                 return;
> 
> 	// It returns a negative error code
>         sm = get_extra_sm_state(stmt->ret_value);
>         if (!sm || !estate_rl(sm->state) ||
>             !sval_is_negative(rl_min(estate_rl(sm->state))))
>                 return;
> 
>         FOR_EACH_PTR(sm->possible, tmp) {
> 		// There is at least one path where "ret" is zero
>                 if (estate_get_single_value(tmp->state, &sval) &&
>                     sval.value == 0)
>                         goto warn;
>         } END_FOR_EACH_PTR(tmp);
> 
>         return;
> warn:
> 	// It's the last statement of a function
>         is_last = is_last_stmt(stmt);
> 
>         name = expr_to_str(stmt->ret_value);
>         sm_warning("missing error code '%s' rl='%s' is_last=%d", name, sm->state->name, is_last);
>         free_string(name);
> }
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 
> .
>