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From: "eggert at cs dot ucla.edu" <gcc-bugzilla@gcc.gnu.org>
To: gcc-bugs@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: [Bug middle-end/106427] New: -Wuse-after-free=3 false alarm about int (not pointer) variable
Date: Sun, 24 Jul 2022 19:52:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <bug-106427-4@http.gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/> (raw)

https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=106427

            Bug ID: 106427
           Summary: -Wuse-after-free=3 false alarm about int (not pointer)
                    variable
           Product: gcc
           Version: 12.1.1
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: middle-end
          Assignee: unassigned at gcc dot gnu.org
          Reporter: eggert at cs dot ucla.edu
  Target Milestone: ---

Created attachment 53341
  --> https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/attachment.cgi?id=53341&action=edit
Compile with '-O2 -S -Wuse-after-free=3' to demonstrate the bug

I ran into this problem when building GNU Tar. Compile the attached program u.i
with "gcc -O2 -S -Wuse-after-free=3 u.i", using GCC 12.1.1 20220507 (Red Hat
12.1.1-1) on x86-64. The output (shown below) is a false alarm, because the
variable 'stop' is of type 'int', and is not a pointer. Apparently GCC is
confused by the assignment statement 'stop = p == end;' and thinks that
accessing 'stop' later implies accessing a freed pointer.

        u.i: In function ‘coalesce_segment’:
        u.i:6486:18: warning: pointer ‘p’ used after ‘free’ [-Wuse-after-free]
         6486 |   for (stop = 0; !stop;)
              |                  ^~~~~
        In function ‘wsnode_free’,
            inlined from ‘coalesce_segment’ at u.i:6499:4:
        u.i:6316:3: note: call to ‘free’ here
         6316 |   free (p);
              |   ^~~~~~~~

             reply	other threads:[~2022-07-24 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-07-24 19:52 eggert at cs dot ucla.edu [this message]
2022-08-27  7:17 ` [Bug middle-end/106427] " simon at josefsson dot org

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