[clang] [clang][analyzer] Fixed 'if_nameindex' in MallocChecker (PR #207726)

Balázs Kéri via cfe-commits cfe-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jul 6 05:56:55 PDT 2026


https://github.com/balazske created https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/207726

The function `if_nameindex` has 0 arguments but `MallocChecker` expected it to have 1 argument and was not recognized by the checker correctly.

>From b03f07efa5f6e9cb5f1c208da5732af011aca79c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Bal=C3=A1zs=20K=C3=A9ri?= <balazs.keri at ericsson.com>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2026 14:52:49 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [clang][analyzer] Fixed 'if_nameindex' in MallocChecker

The function 'if_nameindex' has 0 arguments but MallocChecker expected
it to have 1 argument and was not recognized by the checker correctly.
---
 clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/MallocChecker.cpp | 2 +-
 clang/test/Analysis/malloc-failure.c                | 2 +-
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/MallocChecker.cpp b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/MallocChecker.cpp
index 7ea028246a2ee..287824984623c 100644
--- a/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/MallocChecker.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/StaticAnalyzer/Checkers/MallocChecker.cpp
@@ -547,7 +547,7 @@ class MallocChecker
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"strdup"}, 1}, &MallocChecker::checkStrdup},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"_strdup"}, 1}, &MallocChecker::checkStrdup},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"kmalloc"}, 2}, &MallocChecker::checkKernelMalloc},
-      {{CDM::CLibrary, {"if_nameindex"}, 1}, &MallocChecker::checkIfNameIndex},
+      {{CDM::CLibrary, {"if_nameindex"}, 0}, &MallocChecker::checkIfNameIndex},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"wcsdup"}, 1}, &MallocChecker::checkStrdup},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"_wcsdup"}, 1}, &MallocChecker::checkStrdup},
       {{CDM::CLibrary, {"g_malloc"}, 1}, &MallocChecker::checkBasicAlloc},
diff --git a/clang/test/Analysis/malloc-failure.c b/clang/test/Analysis/malloc-failure.c
index bf421fe7672c8..aea58dad470fa 100644
--- a/clang/test/Analysis/malloc-failure.c
+++ b/clang/test/Analysis/malloc-failure.c
@@ -71,6 +71,6 @@ void test_strdup() {
 
 void test_ifnameindex() {
   struct if_nameindex *p = if_nameindex();
-  p->x = 1; //FIXME: if_nameindex is not recognized by the checker
+  p->x = 1; //expected-warning{{dereference of a null pointer}}
   if_freenameindex(p);
 }



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