Bug 790973 - [PATCHES] Bugs found in python-krbV-1.0.90-4.fc15 using gcc-with-cpychecker static analyzer
Summary: [PATCHES] Bugs found in python-krbV-1.0.90-4.fc15 using gcc-with-cpychecker s...
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Status: CLOSED EOL
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: python-krbV
Version: 23
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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unspecified
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Mike Bonnet
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL: http://fedorapeople.org/~dmalcolm/gcc...
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Blocks: cpychecker
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2012-02-15 20:36 UTC by Dave Malcolm
Modified: 2016-12-20 12:11 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2016-12-20 12:11:15 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
[PATCH 1/5] Context_cc_default: remove redundant lookup of krb5_context (1.01 KB, patch)
2012-04-11 18:30 UTC, Dave Malcolm
no flags Details | Diff
[PATCH 2/5] Context_rc_default: remove redundant lookup of krb5_context (1014 bytes, patch)
2012-04-11 18:30 UTC, Dave Malcolm
no flags Details | Diff
[PATCH 3/5] Context_kt_default: remove redundant lookup of krb5_context (1011 bytes, patch)
2012-04-11 18:30 UTC, Dave Malcolm
no flags Details | Diff
[PATCH 4/5] replace buggy PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() usage with helper functions (34.24 KB, patch)
2012-04-11 18:31 UTC, Dave Malcolm
no flags Details | Diff
[PATCH 5/5] introduce make_class helper function (9.52 KB, patch)
2012-04-11 18:31 UTC, Dave Malcolm
no flags Details | Diff

Description Dave Malcolm 2012-02-15 20:36:48 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-krbV-1.0.90-4.fc15.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/2012-02-15/python-krbV-1.0.90-4.fc15/

Although the bug in the top-most category ("Segfaults in normal paths") appears to be a false positive, every bug I've reviewed in the second category ("Reference leaks") appears to be a true memory leak, and every bug in the third category ("Segfaults within error-handling paths") appear to be genuine segfaults under low memory conditions.  The bugs in the remaining categories may well all be false positives though.

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-krbV-1.0.90-4.fc15
gcc-python-plugin post-0.9 git 073d390de53ef52136bd90e5ac06f1ef833d047d running the checker in an *f16* chroot

Comment 1 Dave Malcolm 2012-02-15 20:39:57 UTC
See also https://fedorahosted.org/python-krbV/ticket/1

Comment 2 Dave Malcolm 2012-04-11 18:30:00 UTC
Created attachment 576833 [details]
[PATCH 1/5] Context_cc_default: remove redundant lookup of  krb5_context

Comment 3 Dave Malcolm 2012-04-11 18:30:27 UTC
Created attachment 576834 [details]
[PATCH 2/5] Context_rc_default: remove redundant lookup of  krb5_context

Comment 4 Dave Malcolm 2012-04-11 18:30:53 UTC
Created attachment 576835 [details]
[PATCH 3/5] Context_kt_default: remove redundant lookup of  krb5_context

Comment 5 Dave Malcolm 2012-04-11 18:31:17 UTC
Created attachment 576836 [details]
[PATCH 4/5] replace buggy PyCObject_AsVoidPtr() usage with helper  functions

Comment 6 Dave Malcolm 2012-04-11 18:31:40 UTC
Created attachment 576837 [details]
[PATCH 5/5] introduce make_class helper function

Comment 7 Dave Malcolm 2012-04-11 18:38:40 UTC
This compiles, but I could use help with testing.

I've also uploaded my repo to github; the above changes are in the "cleanups" branch:
  https://github.com/davidmalcolm/python-krbV/tree/cleanups

Comment 8 Fedora End Of Life 2013-04-03 16:20:22 UTC
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Comment 11 Jan Kurik 2015-07-15 15:11:33 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 23 development cycle.
Changing version to '23'.

(As we did not run this process for some time, it could affect also pre-Fedora 23 development
cycle bugs. We are very sorry. It will help us with cleanup during Fedora 23 End Of Life. Thank you.)

More information and reason for this action is here:
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