Bug 800146

Summary: Bugs found in python-ethtool-0.7-2.fc16 using gcc-with-cpychecker static analyzer
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Dave Malcolm <dmalcolm>
Component: python-ethtoolAssignee: David Sommerseth <davids>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: acme, davids, ovasik
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URL: http://fedorapeople.org/~dmalcolm/gcc-python-plugin/2012-03-05/python-ethtool-0.7-2.fc16/
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Description Flags
[PATCH 1/3] Do not allocate a PyList before needed in get_devices()
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[PATCH 2/3] Don't presume PyString_FromStrin() never returns NULL
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[PATCH 3/3] More fixes to get_interfaces_info() in error situations none

Description Dave Malcolm 2012-03-05 20:26:06 UTC
Description of problem:
I've been writing an experimental static analysis tool to detect bugs commonly occurring within C Python extension modules:
  https://fedorahosted.org/gcc-python-plugin/
  http://gcc-python-plugin.readthedocs.org/en/latest/cpychecker.html
  http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/StaticAnalysisOfPythonRefcounts

I ran the latest version of the tool (in git master; post 0.9) on
python-ethtool-0.7-2.fc16.src.rpm, and it reports various errors.

You can see a list of errors here, triaged into categories (from most significant to least significant):
http://fedorapeople.org/~dmalcolm/gcc-python-plugin/2012-03-05/python-ethtool-0.7-2.fc16/

I've manually reviewed the issues reported by the tool.

Within the category "Reference leaks" the 1 issue reported appears to be a genuine bug: the error path needs a Py_XDECREF(list);

Within the category "Segfaults within error-handling paths" the 3 issues reported appear to be genuine crashers under low-memory conditions: the code assumes that a memory-allocating function returns a non-NULL value.

Within the category "Returning (PyObject*)NULL without setting an exception" the 9 issues reported may or may not be real bugs (the checker doesn't know which of the various functions called if any set the thread's exception state).
There may of course be other bugs in my checker tool.

Hope this is helpful; let me know if you need help reading the logs that the tool generates - I know that it could use some improvement.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
python-ethtool-0.7-2.fc16
gcc-python-plugin post-0.9 git 11462291a66c8db693c8884cb84b795bb5988ffb running the checker in an *f16* chroot

Comment 1 David Sommerseth 2012-03-16 17:24:41 UTC
Created attachment 570663 [details]
[PATCH 1/3] Do not allocate a PyList before needed in get_devices()

Comment 2 David Sommerseth 2012-03-16 17:25:52 UTC
Created attachment 570664 [details]
[PATCH 2/3] Don't presume PyString_FromStrin() never returns NULL

Comment 3 David Sommerseth 2012-03-16 17:26:17 UTC
Created attachment 570665 [details]
[PATCH 3/3] More fixes to get_interfaces_info() in error situations

Comment 4 David Sommerseth 2012-03-16 17:27:14 UTC
More patches will come to take care of the rest of the issues.

Comment 5 Dave Malcolm 2012-03-16 17:31:57 UTC
(In reply to comment #2)
> Created attachment 570664 [details]
> [PATCH 2/3] Don't presume PyString_FromStrin() never returns NULL

Why do you call:
  PyErr_SetString(PyExc_MemoryError, strerror(errno));
on the error-handling path?

PyString_FromString has already set an exception when it returns NULL

Comment 6 Dave Malcolm 2012-03-16 17:33:37 UTC
(In reply to comment #3)
> Created attachment 570665 [details]
> [PATCH 3/3] More fixes to get_interfaces_info() in error situations

Is there a reason for capturing strerror(errno)?

The idiom is to use PyErr_NoMemory; see http://docs.python.org/c-api/exceptions.html#PyErr_NoMemory

Comment 7 Dave Malcolm 2012-03-16 17:34:51 UTC
(In reply to comment #1)
> Created attachment 570663 [details]
> [PATCH 1/3] Do not allocate a PyList before needed in get_devices()

The PyList_New call can fail, returning NULL and setting an exception.  You probably should add a:
  if (!list) {
      return NULL;
  } 
immediately after the call.

Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 19:16:39 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 19 development cycle.
Changing version to '19'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 19 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 19 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping/Fedora19

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