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
This required more changes than I originally expected:
- ObjCIvarRegion implements "canPrintPretty" et al
- DereferenceChecker indicates the null pointer source is an ivar
- bugreporter::trackNullOrUndefValue() uses an alternate algorithm
to compute the location region to track by scouring the ExplodedGraph.
This allows us to get the actual MemRegion for variables, ivars,
fields, etc. We only hand construct a VarRegion for C++ references.
- ExplodedGraph no longer drops nodes for expressions that are marked
'lvalue'. This is to facilitate the logic in the previous bullet.
This may lead to a slight increase in size in the ExplodedGraph,
which I have not measured, but it is likely not to be a big deal.
I have validated each of the changed plist output.
Fixes <rdar://problem/12114812>
llvm-svn: 175988
If a region is binded to a symbolic value, we should track the symbol.
(The code I changed was not previously exercised by the regression
tests.)
llvm-svn: 163261
Anna Zaks