Re: [PATCH 00/11] Two bug fixes & misc code cleanup fixes

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On 01/23/2012 10:41 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> I was looking at the libselinux code and noticed that it did not 
> use much more besides '-Wall' for its default compilation flags. As
> an experiment to see if there were any lurking bugs, I modified the
> Makefile for libselinux to add about 30 other GCC supported 
> warnings.  This patch series is the result. I found 2 real bugs, 
> one potential use of unitialized variable in an OOM scenario, and
> the other a (benign) format string mistake that meant the user
> would not be told which flag was invalid.
> 
> At the same time I fixed const-correctness in several internal and
> public APIs, added more printf format validation annotations, 
> removed old style function declarations & removed some dead code.
> 
> One warning item that I didn't tackle here is to reduce the
> maximum stack usage. With the -Wframe-larger-than flag I had to set
> the libselinux stack size to 32kb, which is getting very excessive 
> IMHO. Most of the excessive stack usage is due to many PATH_MAX 
> declarations, the remainders due to a couple of large structs 
> placed on the stack. All of these are probably better off in the
> heap long term
> 
> Hopefully the first 9 patches are fairly easily accepted. I did not
> know what todo about the last 2 patches which actually add the
> extra CFLAGS warnings. In most projects I would have imported 
> GNULIBs m4 macros for detecting support of compiler flags, but 
> since none of the selinux libraries use autoconf, I don't see a 
> good way/place to detect what compiler flags can be used.
> 
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I have added all of your patches to the libselinux-2.1.9-3.fc17
in Fedora/Rawhide.

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