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From: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
To: bzip2-devel@sourceware.org
Cc: David Malcolm <dmalcolm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Don't call unsafe functions from SIGSEGV/SIGBUS signal handler.
Date: Sat, 23 May 2020 18:35:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f3da210edb01a9b226e9c4122218a7728adb7078.camel@klomp.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200517190939.29003-1-mark@klomp.org>

Hi,

On Sun, 2020-05-17 at 21:09 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> GCC10 -fanalyzer notices that we try to call functions that are not
> signal safe from our fatal signal handler:
> 
> bzip2.c: In function ‘mySIGSEGVorSIGBUScatcher’:
> bzip2.c:819:7: warning: call to ‘fprintf’ from within signal handler
>                [CWE-479] [-Wanalyzer-unsafe-call-within-signal-
> handler]
> 
> It also notices we then call showFileNames and cleanupAndFail which
> also call possibly not signal safe functions.
> 
> Just write out the error message directly to STDERR and exit without
> trying to clean up any files.

I pushed this to master now.

Note GCC11 will also warn about the previous usage of exit() (which is
also not signal safe and was replaced with _exit() in this patch):
https://gcc.gnu.org/pipermail/gcc-patches/2020-May/546189.html

Cheers,

Mark

      reply	other threads:[~2020-05-23 16:35 UTC|newest]

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