GNU bug report logs - #72251
defect found by covscan in diffutils-3.10 (gnulibs)

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Package: diffutils;

Reported by: Wasser Mai <wasser19641 <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2024 06:39:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Wasser Mai <wasser19641 <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 72251 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#72251: [bug-diffutils] bug#72251: defect found by covscan in diffutils-3.10 (gnulibs)
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 22:37:38 -0700

On 2024-07-22 10:29, Wasser Mai wrote:
> There's a following defect in diffutils-3.10 (gnulib) found by
> covscan. The memory dfa->eclosure points to is not initialized. It
> looks like a true positive.

It doesn't look like a true positive to me. The 'postorder' function 
initializes that memory, but covscan isn't smart enough to see that.

These days almost everything Coverity reports for core GNU utilities is 
a false positive, unfortunately.
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