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authorNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2017-07-28 10:02:38 -0400
committerNick Mathewson <nickm@torproject.org>2017-07-28 10:02:38 -0400
commit602c52cad486516defc9d5ed375effd74cfe4529 (patch)
treecb832219a39e6cc84067512fd7493faf44dee307 /src
parent5f0fa480dd94f4fec7b8b026dbd0a524f7b9c786 (diff)
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Coverity deadcode shenanigans on BUG() macro.
We don't actually want Coverity to complain when a BUG() check can never fail, since such checks can prevent us from introducing bugs later on. Closes ticket 23054. Closes CID 1415720, 1415724.
Diffstat (limited to 'src')
-rw-r--r--src/common/util_bug.c4
-rw-r--r--src/common/util_bug.h5
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/common/util_bug.c b/src/common/util_bug.c
index 3d990e3700..cc1ac2ff84 100644
--- a/src/common/util_bug.c
+++ b/src/common/util_bug.c
@@ -13,6 +13,10 @@
#include "backtrace.h"
#include "container.h"
+#ifdef __COVERITY__
+int bug_macro_deadcode_dummy__ = 0;
+#endif
+
#ifdef TOR_UNIT_TESTS
static void (*failed_assertion_cb)(void) = NULL;
static int n_bugs_to_capture = 0;
diff --git a/src/common/util_bug.h b/src/common/util_bug.h
index ae7e7a37fd..de39317d1c 100644
--- a/src/common/util_bug.h
+++ b/src/common/util_bug.h
@@ -59,10 +59,13 @@
*/
#ifdef __COVERITY__
+extern int bug_macro_deadcode_dummy__;
#undef BUG
// Coverity defines this in global headers; let's override it. This is a
// magic coverity-only preprocessor thing.
-#nodef BUG(x) ((x)?(__coverity_panic__(),1):0)
+// We use this "deadcode_dummy__" trick to prevent coverity from
+// complaining about unreachable bug cases.
+#nodef BUG(x) ((x)?(__coverity_panic__(),1):(0+bug_macro_deadcode_dummy__))
#endif
#if defined(__COVERITY__) || defined(__clang_analyzer__)