The Coverity static analyzer was generating many false positives for the
unary operation inside the VIR_FREE() definition as it was trying to evaluate
the else portion of the "?:" even though the if portion was (1).
---
src/util/viralloc.h | 11 ++++++++++-
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/src/util/viralloc.h b/src/util/viralloc.h
index 37ec5ee..0c9b177 100644
--- a/src/util/viralloc.h
+++ b/src/util/viralloc.h
@@ -365,7 +365,16 @@ void virFree(void *ptrptr) ATTRIBUTE_NONNULL(1);
* while evaluating ptr only once. For now, we intentionally cast
* away const, since a number of callers safely pass const char *.
*/
-# define VIR_FREE(ptr) virFree((void *) (1 ? (const void *) &(ptr) : (ptr)))
+# if !STATIC_ANALYSIS
+# define VIR_FREE(ptr) virFree((void *) (1 ? (const void *) &(ptr) : (ptr)))
+# else
+/* The Coverity static analyzer considers the else path of the "?:" and
+ * flags the VIR_FREE() of the address of the address of memory as a
+ * RESOURCE_LEAK resulting in numerous false positives (eg, VIR_FREE(&ptr))
+ */
+# define VIR_FREE(ptr) virFree((void *) ((const void *) &(ptr)))
+# endif
+
# if TEST_OOM
--
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