This MR changes the default Debian sid build to wrap make with bear
that creates compilation database and use the compilation database
to run Cppcheck on the source files systematically.
The job is currently set to be allowed to fail as it will take some
time to fix all the Cppcheck detected issues.
The coccinellery repository provides many little semantic patches to fix common
problems in the code. The number of semantic patches in the coccinellery
repository is high and most of the semantic patches apply only for Linux, so it
doesn't make sense to run them on regular basis as the processing takes a lot of
time.
The list of issue found in BIND 9, by no means complete, includes:
- double assignment to a variable
- `continue` at the end of the loop
- double checks for `NULL`
- useless checks for `NULL` (cannot be `NULL`, because of earlier return)
- using `0` instead of `NULL`
- useless extra condition (`if (foo) return; if (!foo) { ...; }`)
- removing & in front of static functions passed as arguments
The dns_name_copy() function followed two different semanitcs that was driven
whether the last argument was or wasn't NULL. This commit splits the function
in two where now third argument to dns_name_copy() can't be NULL and
dns_name_copynf() doesn't have third argument.
This commit was done by hand to add the RUNTIME_CHECK() around stray
dns_name_copy() calls with NULL as third argument. This covers the edge cases
that doesn't make sense to write a semantic patch since the usage pattern was
unique or almost unique.
This second commit uses second semantic patch to replace the calls to
dns_name_copy() with NULL as third argument where the result was stored in a
isc_result_t variable. As the dns_name_copy(..., NULL) cannot fail gracefully
when the third argument is NULL, it was just a bunch of dead code.
Couple of manual tweaks (removing dead labels and unused variables) were
manually applied on top of the semantic patch.
This commit add RUNTIME_CHECK() around all simple dns_name_copy() calls where
the third argument is NULL using the semantic patch from the previous commit.
The dns_name_copy() function cannot fail gracefully when the last argument
(target) is NULL. Add RUNTIME_CHECK()s around such calls.
The first semantic patch adds RUNTIME_CHECK() around any call that ignores the
return value and is very safe to apply.
The second semantic patch attempts to properly add RUNTIME_CHECK() to places
where the return value from `dns_name_copy()` is recorded into `result`
variable. The result of this semantic patch needs to be reviewed by hand.
Both patches misses couple places where the code surrounding the
`dns_name_copy(..., NULL)` usage is more complicated and is better suited to be
fixed by a human being that understands the surrounding code.
