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Expand Up @@ -92,6 +92,8 @@ class ReturnStackAllocatedMemoryConfig extends MustFlowConfiguration {
or
node2.(PointerOffsetInstruction).getLeftOperand() = node1
}

override predicate isBarrier(Instruction n) { n.getResultType() instanceof ErroneousType }
}

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category: minorAnalysis
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* The "Returning stack-allocated memory" query (`cpp/return-stack-allocated-memory`) no longer produces results if there is an extraction error in the returned expression.
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// semmle-extractor-options: -std=c++14
// semmle-extractor-options: -std=c++14 --expect_errors
class MyClass
{
public:
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void* test_strndupa(const char* s, size_t size) {
char* s2 = strndupa(s, size);
return s2; // BAD
}
}

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// semmle-extractor-options: --expect_errors

UNKNOWN_TYPE test_error_value() {
UNKNOWN_TYPE x;
return x; // GOOD: Error return type
}

void* test_error_pointer() {
UNKNOWN_TYPE x;
return &x; // GOOD: Don't know what &x means
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This is "BAD" (I guess unless & is actually an overloaded operator, because who knows in that case), because we're taking the address of a local variable.

I'm fine with silencing these, but the comment needs to be updated.

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I agree, they are "probably" bad. Do we even need a comment?

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return &x; // GOOD: Don't know what &x means
return &x; // BAD [FALSE NEGATIVE]: &x is an error

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return &x; // GOOD: Don't know what &x means
return &x; // BAD [FALSE NEGATIVE]

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Just // BAD [FALSE NEGATIVE] is sufficient in both cases, I think.

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int* test_error_pointer_member() {
UNKNOWN_TYPE x;
return &x.y; // GOOD: Don't know what x.y means
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Same as above.

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