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From: Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com>
To: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>,
	Pawel Wodkowski <pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] Fix usage of fgets in various places
Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 11:20:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54EC4261.6050804@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150223080035.001417e8@urahara>

On 02/23/2015 06:00 PM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Feb 2015 15:10:00 +0100
> Pawel Wodkowski <pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com> wrote:
>
>> Declaration of fgets() is
>> char *fgets(char *str, int size, FILE *stream);
>>
>> Klocwork complain about passing "sizeof()" as size parameter since
>> implicit casting size_t to int might cause loss of precision.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Pawel Wodkowski <pawelx.wodkowski@intel.com>
>
> NAK this is shooting at Unicorns.
> The tool is the problem not the code.

The tool is technically correct, even if loss of precision might be 
unlikely to occur in this context.

However the patch is incorrect, the problem doesn't go away by adding an 
explict cast even if it shuts up the tool.

	- Panu -

  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-24  9:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-23 14:09 [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 0/5] Fix issues reported by static analysis tool Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-23 14:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/5] rte_timer: fix invalid declaration of rte_timer_cb_t Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-24 10:39   ` Olivier MATZ
2015-02-24 11:12     ` Wodkowski, PawelX
2015-02-24 12:36       ` Olivier MATZ
2015-02-23 14:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 2/5] librte_kvargs: make rte_kvargs_free() be consistent with other "free()" functions Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-24 11:30   ` Olivier MATZ
2015-02-23 14:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] pmd ring: fix possible memory leak during devinit Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-24 11:05   ` Olivier MATZ
2015-02-24 11:15     ` Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-24 11:30       ` Olivier MATZ
2015-02-23 14:09 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 4/5] cmdline: make parse_set_list() use size_t instead of int for low/high parameter Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-24 11:05   ` Olivier MATZ
2015-02-23 14:10 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 5/5] Fix usage of fgets in various places Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-23 16:00   ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-24  9:20     ` Panu Matilainen [this message]
2015-02-24 19:01       ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-02-25  5:37         ` Panu Matilainen
2015-02-25 12:41 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Fix issues reported by static analysis tool Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-25 12:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 1/4] rte_timer: change declaration of rte_timer_cb_t Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-25 12:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 2/4] librte_kvargs: make rte_kvargs_free() be consistent with other "free()" functions Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-25 12:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 3/4] pmd ring: fix possible memory leak during devinit Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-25 12:41   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 4/4] cmdline: make parse_set_list() use size_t instead of int for low/high parameter Pawel Wodkowski
2015-02-27 13:28   ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH v2 0/4] Fix issues reported by static analysis tool Olivier MATZ
2015-03-04 10:27     ` Thomas Monjalon

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