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Re: [PATCH][BZ #13724] Do not segfault in pthread_setname_np (x, NULL)


On Wed, Oct 23, 2013 at 07:29:31AM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> On 10/23/13 02:56, OndÅej BÃlka wrote:
> >On Wed, Oct 09, 2013 at 01:15:53PM -0600, Jeff Law wrote:
> >>On 10/09/13 12:02, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >>>On 10/09/2013 01:57 PM, Jeff Law wrote:
> >>>>On 10/09/13 11:53, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> >>>>>Right, you could wrap everything up and check all inputs against
> >>>>>non-NULL where the headers say __attribute__ ((__nonnull__
> >>>>>params)) or __nonnull(params) (short-hand in glibc).
> >>>>But using the attributes are compile-time checks only.  Using an
> >>>>LD_PRELOAD provides runtime checking
> >>>
> >>>I agree, what I want to say was that to automatically generate the
> >>>wrappers and check against null parameters you can parse the public
> >>>headers and look for glibc's __nonnull markups?
> >>Oh, yea, I guess that could be done.  Never thought of that.
> >>
> >>jeff
> >
> >I realized that for this case should be handled at gcc part. A
> >preloading could find all nonnull violations for glibc functions but
> >if gcc automatically adds null check when compiled with FORTIFY_SOURCE
> >(or -fcheck-nonnull) then we could check violations everywhere.
> >
> >Second benefit is that gcc will optimize checks that are not needed.
> >
> >Is there PR for it or should I file one?
> I don't think there's an existing PR for this, you'd need a new one.
> Jeff

Actually there was similar one that I reused.

http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=46936


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