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http: fix use-of-uninitialized-value bug
This was found via MSan. In nxt_http_fields_hash() we setup a nxt_lvlhsh_query_t structure and initialise a couple of its members. At some point we call lhq->proto->alloc(lhq->pool, nxt_lvlhsh_bucket_size(lhq->proto)); Which in this case is void * nxt_lvlhsh_alloc(void *data, size_t size) { return nxt_memalign(size, size); } So even though lhq.ppol wasn't previously initialised we don't actually use it in that particular function. However MSan triggers on the fact that we are passing an uninitialised value into that function. Indeed, compilers will generally complain about such things, e.g /* u.c */ struct t { void *p; int len; }; static void test(void *p __attribute__((unused)), int len) { (void)len; } int main(void) { struct t t; t.len = 42; test(t.p, t.len); return 0; } GCC and Clang will produce a -Wuninitialized warning. But they won't catch the following... /* u2.c */ struct t { void *p; int len; }; static void _test(void *p __attribute__((unused)), int len) { (void)len; } static void test(struct t *t) { _test(t->p, t->len); } int main(void) { struct t t; t.len = 42; test(&t); return 0; } Which is why we don't get a compiler warning about lhq.pool. In this case initialising lhg.pool even though we don't use it here seems like the right thing to do and maybe compilers will start being able to catch these in the future. Actually GCC with -fanalyzer does catch the above $ gcc -Wall -Wextra -O0 -fanalyzer u2.c u2.c: In function ‘test’: u2.c:15:9: warning: use of uninitialized value ‘*t.p’ [CWE-457] [-Wanalyzer-use-of-uninitialized-value] 15 | _test(t->p, t->len); | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ‘main’: events 1-3 | | 18 | int main(void) | | ^~~~ | | | | | (1) entry to ‘main’ | 19 | { | 20 | struct t t; | | ~ | | | | | (2) region created on stack here |...... | 23 | test(&t); | | ~~~~~~~~ | | | | | (3) calling ‘test’ from ‘main’ | +--> ‘test’: events 4-5 | | 13 | static void test(struct t *t) | | ^~~~ | | | | | (4) entry to ‘test’ | 14 | { | 15 | _test(t->p, t->len); | | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | | | | | (5) use of uninitialized value ‘*t.p’ here | Signed-off-by: Arjun <[email protected]> Link: <https://clang.llvm.org/docs/MemorySanitizer.html> [ Commit message - Andrew ] Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <[email protected]>
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