RFR: JDK-8259786: initialize last parameter of getpwuid_r [v4]

Harold Seigel hseigel at openjdk.java.net
Wed Jan 20 13:54:50 UTC 2021


On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 12:05:03 GMT, Matthias Baesken <mbaesken at openjdk.org> wrote:

>> We have a couple of calls to getpwuid_r  in the codebase, like 
>> g= getpwuid_r(getuid(), &resbuf, pwd_buf, sizeof(pwd_buf), &pwd);
>> 
>> Usually we NULL-check pwd after the call because we do not fully trust the return code of the function (it is documented in the codebase why we do not fully trust the return code) . However we miss to initialize pwd at some places before the call, which might we a little problematic and should be improved   (at other places we already initialize it).
>> 
>> This triggers also Sonar warnings like :
>> https://sonarcloud.io/project/issues?id=jdk&open=AXaE0dsA8L9hkQskGEbA&resolved=false&types=BUG
>> 
>> 
>> Aside from this issue ,  should we in other issue ,  unify the OS versions of  static char* get_user_name(uid_t uid)    in posix code (currently we have it for bsd, linux, aix  but the functions look very similar ?
>
> Matthias Baesken has updated the pull request with a new target base due to a merge or a rebase. The pull request now contains five commits:
> 
>  - bring initialization to perfMemory_posix
>  - Merge branch 'master' into JDK-8259786
>  - More revert
>  - revert perfMemory changes
>  - JDK-8259786

Changes look good!
Thanks, Harold

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Marked as reviewed by hseigel (Reviewer).

PR: https://git.openjdk.java.net/jdk/pull/2098



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