Re: I found multiple crash bugs in Dash v0.5.12-115-gb4ef25d

Harald van Dijk <[email protected]> Sat, 13 Sep 2025 15:29:30 +0100
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.dash
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 13/09/2025 15:06, Herbert Xu wrote:
> This is actualy harmless because memcmp will return non-zero if we
> read past the NUL character on the string p.  If there was a way
> to mark this as a false-positive it would be nice.

Are you sure this is a false positive? memcmp isn't required to stop 
reading once it sees NUL and typical implementations read multiple bytes 
at a time. Reading past the NUL may crash.

Cheers,
Harald van Dijk