memset bugs.

Jakub Jelinek jakub at redhat.com
Wed Nov 25 18:58:38 UTC 2009


On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 01:43:13PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> There's some obvious bugs below in a bunch of packages.
> The 2nd and 3rd arguments to memset calls are the wrong way around.
> I found these after grepping through a make prep'd devel/ tree.
> 
> 15 hits out of 100G of source code isn't that bad, but we can do better!

glibc headers warn about this (when -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2), so a faster way
would be just grep through all packages' build.log files (preferrably on the
box where they are stored to avoid downloading it all).

	Jakub




More information about the fedora-devel-list mailing list