ntdll: Avoid Potential Infinite Loop
Paul Bryan Roberts
pbronline-wine at yahoo.co.uk
Thu Feb 12 02:30:21 CST 2009
Hi,
I expect this patch will be accepted due to precedent - a few months ago
I submitted the same patch for the same problem in a different routine
in a different compilation unit of ntdll.
Yes, I guess the infinite loop does not occur in practice (someone would
have noticed) and I guess it has been there a very long time. But it
isn't exactly hard to spot - I was speed reading the code looking for
something else.
I've seen a lot of chatter recently about something called Coverity. I
looked it up on Wikipedia (after checking the spelling). Apart from
it's obvious use as a conversation piece, is it proving useful to the
project ?
Is there a feedback policy ?
Something like "We think your product is superlative .... but someone
may wonder if your code not finding this bug in our code might be a bug
in your code."
Security :); false sense of security :(
Paul Bryan Roberts
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