Introduce a new helper function, which computes the first symbolic region in
the base region chain. The corresponding symbol has been used for assuming that
a pointer is null. Now, it will also be used for checking if it is null.
This ensures that we are tracking a null pointer correctly in the BugReporter.
llvm-svn: 179916
The second modification does not lead to any visible result, but, theoretically, is what we should
have been looking at to begin with since we are checking if the node was assumed to be null in
an inlined function.
llvm-svn: 176576
Inlining brought a few "null pointer use" false positives, which occur because
the callee defensively checks if a pointer is NULL, whereas the caller knows
that the pointer cannot be NULL in the context of the given call.
This is a first attempt to silence these warnings by tracking the symbolic value
along the execution path in the BugReporter. The new visitor finds the node
in which the symbol was first constrained to NULL. If the node belongs to
a function on the active stack, the warning is reported, otherwise, it is
suppressed.
There are several areas for follow up work, for example:
- How do we differentiate the cases where the first check is followed by
another one, which does happen on the active stack?
Also, this only silences a fraction of null pointer use warnings. For example, it
does not do anything for the cases where NULL was assigned inside a callee.
llvm-svn: 176402
Anna Zaks