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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
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   title="NEW --- - static analyzer false positive: errno will always be nonzero after read(2) returns an error"
   href="http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18701">18701</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>static analyzer false positive: errno will always be nonzero after read(2) returns an error
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>3.4
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Linux
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>Static Analyzer
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>kremenek@apple.com
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>nelhage@nelhage.com
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          <th>CC</th>
          <td>llvmbugs@cs.uiuc.edu
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
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        <pre>Created <span class=""><a href="attachment.cgi?id=11993" name="attach_11993" title="reproducer with false positive">attachment 11993</a> <a href="attachment.cgi?id=11993&action=edit" title="reproducer with false positive">[details]</a></span>
reproducer with false positive

the static analyzer doesn't understand that after read(2) returns an error,
errno will be set to a non-zero value.

In the attached test case, a helper function checks the return value of read(),
and returns 'errno' if read returns < 0. The static analyzer flags an error
that will happen if read() returns < 0, but errno == 0, which should never
happen in a conforming libc. 

(c.f. SUSv3, which says of (pread,read):

"Upon successful completion, these functions shall return a non-negative
integer indicating the number of bytes actually read. Otherwise, the functions
shall return -1 and set errno to indicate the error."

and of (errno):

"No function in this volume of POSIX.1-2008 shall set errno to 0.")</pre>
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