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authorPhilippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>2021-09-03 19:45:10 +0200
committerLaurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>2021-12-17 11:57:35 +0100
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checkpatch: Do not allow deprecated g_memdup()
g_memdup() is insecure and as been deprecated in GLib 2.68. QEMU provides the safely equivalent g_memdup2() wrapper. Do not allow more g_memdup() calls in the repository, provide a hint to use g_memdup2(). Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> Message-Id: <20210903174510.751630-29-philmd@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index cb8eff2..5caa739 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2850,6 +2850,11 @@ sub process {
WARN("consider using g_path_get_$1() in preference to g_strdup($1())\n" . $herecurr);
}
+# enforce g_memdup2() over g_memdup()
+ if ($line =~ /\bg_memdup\s*\(/) {
+ ERROR("use g_memdup2() instead of unsafe g_memdup()\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# recommend qemu_strto* over strto* for numeric conversions
if ($line =~ /\b(strto[^kd].*?)\s*\(/) {
ERROR("consider using qemu_$1 in preference to $1\n" . $herecurr);