Before commit 24d8968c, virDirClose took a DIR**, and that was never NULL, so its declaration included ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1). Since that commit, virDirClose takes a DIR*, and it may be NULL (e.g. if the DIR* is initialized to NULL and was never closed). Even though virDirClose() is currently only called implicitly (as the cleanup for a g_autoptr(DIR)), and (as I've just newly learned) the autocleanup function g_autoptr will only be called if the pointer in question is non-null (see the definition of _GLIB_AUTOPTR_CLEAR_FUNC_NAME in /usr/include/glib-2.0/glib/gmacros.h), it does still cause Coverity to complain that it *could* be called with a NULL, and it's also possible that in the future someone might add code that explicitly calls virDirClose. To eliminate the Coverity complaints, and protect against the hypothetical future where someone both explicitly calls virDirClose() with a potentially NULL value, *and* re-enables the nonnull directive when not building with Coverity (disabled by commit eefb881) this patch removes the ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1) from the declaration of virDirClose(). Fixes: 24d8968cd0a718af4badbbc858b1b449fea7205a Details-Research-by: Dan Berrange <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Laine Stump <laine(a)redhat.com&gt; --- src/util/virfile.h | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/util/virfile.h b/src/util/virfile.h index ba31a78e58..32505826ee 100644 --- a/src/util/virfile.h +++ b/src/util/virfile.h @@ -269,8 +269,7 @@ int virDirOpenQuiet(DIR **dirp, const char *dirname) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(2) G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT; int virDirRead(DIR *dirp, struct dirent **ent, const char *dirname) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(2) G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT; -void virDirClose(DIR *dirp) - ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1); +void virDirClose(DIR *dirp); G_DEFINE_AUTOPTR_CLEANUP_FUNC(DIR, virDirClose); int virFileMakePath(const char *path) G_GNUC_WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;